ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,347, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"3D upper garment tracking" was invented by Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Gal Dudovitch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Sasson (Kibbutz Ayyelet Hashahar, Israel), Ma'ayan Mishin Shuvi (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Matan Zohar (Rishon LeZion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a video that includes a depiction of a person wearing a fashion item; generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of the person depicted in the video; generating a segmentation of the fashion item worn by the pers...