US Patent Issued to Shopify on Sept. 15 for "Efficient gaussian splat capture and storage" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,966, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Efficient gaussian splat capture and storage" was invented by Eric Andrew Florenzano (San Francisco), Brennan Letkeman (Calgary, Canada), Diego Macario Bello (Montreal), Daniel Beauchamp (Ottawa) and Russ Maschmeyer (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object. The method includes: determining that a first portion of an object has a lower priority; obtaining a plurality of images of the object; and training a three-dimensional model of the object using a training algorithm that processes...