US Patent Issued to Shape Labs on March 17 for "Method for rendering 2D and 3D data within a 3D virtual environment" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,746, issued on March 17, was assigned to Shape Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method for rendering 2D and 3D data within a 3D virtual environment" was invented by Alexandre Charles M. Wayenberg (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for modeling a human body includes: driving a sensor block along a path above a platform occupied by a user and recording a sequence of depth images and color images, via the sensor block, at each capture position in a sequence of capture positions along the path; compiling the set of depth images into a low-density 3D model of the user and a high-density 3D model of the use...