ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,461, issued on May 12, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Complete 3D object reconstruction from an incomplete image" was invented by Jae Shin Yoon (San Jose, Calif.), Yangtuanfeng Wang (London), Krishna Kumar Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Junying Wang (Los Angeles) and Jingwan Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modeling system accesses a two-dimensional (2D) input image displayed via a user interface, the 2D input image depicting, at a first view, a first object. At least one region of the first object is not represented by pixel values of the 2D input image. The modeling system generates, by applying a...