ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,384, issued on July 14, was assigned to ARCADE STUDIO INC. (San Francisco).

"Method, computer-readable storage medium, and system for predicting or estimating physical attributes of products shown in images" was invented by Andrew Carr (Springville, Utah), Hakan Gunturkun (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sida Li (San Francisco), Mariam Naficy (San Francisco) and Will Zhuk (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes a computer-implemented technique for predicting or estimating physical attributes of products depicted in images is disclosed. The method includes receiving one or more images-either photographs of ...