ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,037, issued on July 29, was assigned to RED PILL LAB Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Method and system for generating a three-dimensional global pose from an image" was invented by Dobromir Todorov (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Ting-Chieh Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Tsung-Yuan Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Hung Shih (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) global pose includes: receiving an image and performing a detection operation to detect a human body in the image; obtaining a two-dimensional (2D) heatmap that is related to a skeleton structure of the human body and that includes a pl...