ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,966, issued on July 29, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for acquiring texture of 3D model and related apparatus" was invented by Xiangkai Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acquiring a texture of a three-dimensional (3D) model includes: acquiring at least two 3D networks generated by a target object based on a plurality of angles, the at least two 3D networks including a first correspondence between point cloud information and color information of the target object, and first camera poses of the target object; acquiring an offset between 3D points used for recording...