ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,154, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Body mesh reconstruction from RGB image" was invented by Riza Alp Guler (London), Frank Lu (London), Georgios Papandreou (London) and Haoyang Wang (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for generating a body mesh from a single image. The system predicts both a volumetric reconstruction tensor of the monocular image and a pose of an object by applying a first machine learning model to a monocular image. The system identifies a portion of the pose of the object that corresponds to a point in a canonical space associated with a s...