ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,501, issued on May 20, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Three-dimensional heat map apparel recommendation" was invented by Christopher Andon (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods include a three-dimensional (3D) scanning element, an electronic data storage configured to store a database including fields for 3D scan data and demographic information, a processor, and a user interface. In an example, the processor obtains 3D scan data of a body part of a subject from the 3D scanning element, analyzes the 3D scan data for incomplete regions, generate a composite 3D image of 3D scan data...