ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,456, issued on July 15, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for processing multimedia data" was invented by Siavash Ghorbani (Bromma, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining, via a first computing device, video data of a first product review video for a product; identifying a portion of the first product review video depicting the product; extracting surface textures of the product based on the identified portion of the first product review video; obtaining a first three-dimensional representation of the product; and generating an updated...