ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,909, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Real-time system for streaming with live volumetric capture and associated metadata" was invented by Thiago Vallin Spina (Campinas, Brazil), Andrea Britto Mattos Lima (Sao Paulo), Spencer G. Fowers (Duvall, Wash.) and Christopher Patrick O'Dowd (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods that leverage machine learning techniques to provide information about items that are on display during a live event. A 3D volumetric capture system is used to construct a 3D representation of the event in real time. For example...