US Patent Issued to The RealReal on Jan. 13 for "Automated steam processing system for apparel" (American, Argentinean, Uruguayan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,975, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The RealReal Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automated steam processing system for apparel" was invented by Anurag Syal (Nashville, Tenn.), Hasan Cheema (San Francisco), Marcos Toscano (Montevideo, Uruguay), John Paul Dombrowski (Campbell, Calif.) and Agostina Larrazabal (Parana, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for automatic steaming of apparel are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes detecting a wrinkle in an image of an item, determining whether the wrinkle is correctable using image processing, and performing image processing on the image to ...