US Patent Issued to SNAP on Nov. 25 for "Generating 3D models with texture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,210, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Generating 3D models with texture" was invented by Songfang Han (Cupertino, Calif.), Sergei Korolev (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Hsin-Ying Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Aleksei Stoliar (Marina del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial intelligence (AI) network or neural network is trained to generate three-dimensional (3D) models or shapes with color from two-dimensional (2D) input images and input text describing the 3D model with color. Example methods include converting a first three-dimensional (3D) model from a first representation to a secon...