US Patent Issued to Lowe's Cos. on Sept. 1 for "Object modeling based on properties and images of an object" (Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,377, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Lowe's Cos. Inc. (Mooresville, N.C.).

"Object modeling based on properties and images of an object" was invented by Ryan James Favale (Everett, Wash.), Erin Frederick Clark (Everett, Wash.), Joseph Jon Barnard (Waxhaw, N.C.), Brandon Scott Austin (Burien, Wash.), Philip Ashton Harlow (Bothell, Wash.), Jay Zeng (Shoreline, Wash.) and Jeffrey S. Blazier (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modeling system receives, via a user interface of a device, a selection of a three-dimensional shape that includes a plurality of faces. The modeling system generates a virtual object by: receivin...