ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,930, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Pixel-based multi-view garment transfer" was invented by Avihay Assouline (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amir Fruchtman (Holon, Israel), Jonathan Heimann (Herzliya, Israel) and Nir Malbin (Shoham, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for using machine learning models to perform pixel-based deformation of fashion items. The methods and systems receive one or more images depicting a person in an individual pose and receive a first source image depicting a first view of a target fashion item and a second source image depicting a second view ...