US Patent Issued to VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL, Treedy's on Nov. 4 for "Methods of estimating a bare body shape from a concealed scan of the body" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,516, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL (Brussels) and Treedy's SPRL (Brussels).

"Methods of estimating a bare body shape from a concealed scan of the body" was invented by Pengpeng Hu (Ixelles, Belgium), Adrian Munteanu (Overijse, Belgium), Nourbakhsh Nastaran (Auderghem, Belgium) and Stephan Sturges (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are disclosed for generating a training dataset of concealed shapes and corresponding unveiled shapes of a body for training a neural network. These methods may include generating with the aid of computing means a first dataset comprising a plurality of first surf...