ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,145, issued on April 7, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Measuring method and system for body-shaped data" was invented by Yu-Chi Lu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Po Hsuan Hsiao (Caotun Township, Taiwan), Ming-Yen Chen (Pingtung City, Taiwan), Chang Hong Lin (Zhudong Township, Taiwan), Hsin-Yeh Yang (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Cheng-Hsuan Cheng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring method and system for body-shaped data are provided. The measuring method comprises: performing a feature extraction on an apparel image to obtain a plurality of apparel feature points by a f...