ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,030, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Regional body composition from two-dimensional color body images" was invented by Brandon Michael Smith (Fremont, Calif.), Siddhartha Chandra (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Durga Venkata Kiran Yakkala (Eluru, India), Ganesh Subramanian Iyer (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Siddharth Choudhary (San Jose, Calif.), JinJin Li (San Jose, Calif.), Prakash Ramu (Beaverton, Ore.), Antonio Criminisi (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Steven Heymsfield (Baton Rouge, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods to determine one or more regional body composition values f...