US Patent Issued to Target Brands on May 27 for "Cost assessment user interface" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,987, issued on May 27, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Cost assessment user interface" was invented by Kirsten MacNeill (Minneapolis), Hanna Frahm (Minneapolis), Nagarjuna Goud Bandamedi (Minneapolis), Adam N. Morris (Minneapolis) and William Volkmeier (St. Michael, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cost assessment tool, method and system are disclosed. The cost assessment tool can parse a three-dimensional model to derive properties of a garment. The cost assessment tool can use the properties of the garment to assess the garment cost. The cost assessment tool can generate a user interface comprising the garm...