ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,444, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Real-time fashion item transfer system" was invented by Kai Zhou (Wiener Neudorf, Austria), Laura Rosalia Luidolt (Vienna), Himmy Tam (London), Riza Alp Guler (London), Iason Kokkinos (London) and Avihay Assouline (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for transferring garments from a real-world object to a virtual object. The system receives, by a client device, an image that includes a depiction of a real-world object having a fashion item in a real-world environment. The system accesses a three-dimensional (3D) av...