ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,672, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Real-time garment exchange" was invented by Avihay Assouline (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Nir Malbin (Shoham, Israel) and Gal Sasson (Kibbutz Ayyelet Hashahar, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for transferring garments in a video from one real-world object to another in real time. The operations comprise receiving a first video that includes a depiction of a first person wearing a first garment in a first pose and obtaining a second video that includes a depiction of ...