ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,639, issued on July 22, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Three-dimensional (3D) modeling" was invented by AmirHossein Taher Kouhestani (Solna, Sweden) and Volodya Grancharov (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (500) for 3D modeling of one or more regions of interest. The method includes obtaining (s502) information indicating that a person's gaze is fixed. Advantageously, the method further includes, in response to obtaining the information indicating that the person's gaze is fixed, initiating (s504) an active scan of a region of interest (ROI), wherein the ROI is a region in wh...