ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,585, issued on May 13, was assigned to VISUALIZE KK (Tokyo).

"Self-implementing accurate body measurements by a user using a mobile device" was invented by Subas Chhatkuli (Tokyo), Bryan Atwood (Tokyo) and Jin Koh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving from a camera a 2D front-view digital image (FDI) and side-view digital image (SDI) of a human body; receiving one or more camera parameters (CPs); executing a front depth-estimation model (DEM) generated through pre-training a first machine-learning model (MLM) to convert the FDI and SDI into a front depth map (DM) and side DM, respectively; executing a rear...