ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,493, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Prediction of contact points between 3D models" was invented by Idris Syed Aleem (Kitchener, Canada) and Cecilia Abadie (Montara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may receive a first three-dimensional model of at least a body part of a person. A method may receive a second three-dimensional model of a wearable device comprising a head-mounted display configured to project a display. A method may predict, by at least one machine-learning model using the first three-dimensional model and the second three-dimensional model as inputs, a plurality o...