ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,401, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Illuscio Inc. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating a line that represents different frequencies based on multi-dimensional data encoding" was invented by Kevin Edward Dean (Greenwood, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-dimensional encoder ("MDE") receives a file with different data points. Each data point is defined with uncompressed multi-dimensional data. The multi-dimensional data may include multiple elements for defining a data point position (e.g., a multi-dimensional position including x, y, and/or z coordinates), color values of the data point (e.g., red, ...