ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,207, issued on March 3, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional modeling and reconstruction of clothing" was invented by Xiaoxu Meng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Weiyang Li (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Bo Yang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing template is determined from a previously constructed clothing model, associated with a piece of clothing in a plurality of 2D images, and indicates a 3D mesh that includes a plurality of full loops. A plurality of side silhouettes of the piece of clothing is determined based on the plurality of 2D images. A plurality of key point sets is determi...