ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,334, issued on March 24, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for reconstructing a three- dimensional object from an image" was invented by Senthil Purushwalkam Shiva Prakash (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Nikhil Naik (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a 3D generation system from a single RGB image of an object by inferring the hidden 3D structure of objects based on 2D priors learnt by a generative model. Specifically, the 3D generation system may reconstruct the 3D structure of an object from an input of a single RGB image and optionally an associate...