US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 15 for "3D model generation using multiple textures" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,973, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"3D model generation using multiple textures" was invented by Omri Berg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Gal Dudovitch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amir Fruchtman (Holon, Israel) and Peleg Harel (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for generating 3D assets, such as for an extended reality (XR) experience. The system receives a plurality of textures associated with an object, each texture of the plurality of textures corresponding to a different view of the object and automatically generates an ini...