US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 16 for "Determining an object's 3D orientation from a single camera's image" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,553, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Determining an object's 3D orientation from a single camera's image" was invented by Hongli Deng (Bellevue, Wash.), Ryan Savio Menezes (Bellevue, Wash.), Gabriel Blanco Saldana (Kirkland, Wash.) and Zicheng Liu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved techniques for determining an object's 3D orientation. An image is analyzed to identify a 2D object and a first set of key points. The first set defines a first polygon. A 3D virtual object is generated. This 3D virtual object has a second set of key points defining a second p...