ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,627, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ovad Custom Stages LLC (Troy, Mich.).

"Automatic adjustable mannequin" was invented by Davo Scheich (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated adjustable mannequin is provided for use as a platform for producing computer generated fashion model clothing displays. The clothing displays may be static photographs or video. The mannequin combines manually adjustable dress forms currently used by seamstresses and clothing designers with three dimensional scanning and photographic technologies. Actual body scan data of a living model may be used to automatically adjust the shape or contou...