ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,601, issued on July 22, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings (Paris).

"Apparatus and a method for generating data representative of a pixel beam" was invented by Laurent Blonde (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Didier Doyen (La Bouexiere, France) and Guillaume Boisson (Pleumeleuc, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are several types of plenoptic devices having their proprietary file format. At present there is no standard supporting the acquisition and transmission of multi-dimensional information for an exhaustive over-view of the different parameters upon which a light-field depends. As such acquired light-field dat...