US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Oct. 14 for "Automatic generation of fashion manufacturing tech packs from images using computer vision" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,986, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automatic generation of fashion manufacturing tech packs from images using computer vision" was invented by Yan Mui Kitty Yeung (Waldorf, Germany), Christopher Ward Davis (Portland, Ore.) and Evan Roy Chaki (North Bend, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein analyze a garment design to create, verify, and package technical specifications usable by a manufacturer to produce a garment. Computer vision technologies are applied to an image of the garment to identify fabrics and other materials, notions such as zippe...