US Patent Issued to Snap on June 2 for "Real-time upper-body garment exchange" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,268, issued on June 2, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Real-time upper-body garment exchange" was invented by Avihay Assouline (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Nir Malbin (Shoham, Israel) and Gal Sasson (Kibbutz Ayyelet Hashahar, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for transferring garments from one real-world object to another in real time. The operations comprise receiving a first video that includes a depiction of a first person wearing a first upper-body garment in a first pose and obtaining a second video that includes a depi...