US Patent Issued to Snap on Feb. 10 for "Entertaining mobile application for animating a single image of a human body and applying effects" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,228, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Entertaining mobile application for animating a single image of a human body and applying effects" was invented by Sergei Gorbatyuk (London), Nikolai Smirnov (London), Aleksandr Mashrabov (Los Angeles) and Egor Nemchinov (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for animating a single image of a human body and applying effects. An example method includes receiving an image of a body, receiving, via a user interface, a user input including parameters associated with a motion, fitting a portion of the image of the body to a hair mod...