ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,772, issued on July 1, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Partial access support in ISOBMFF containers for video-based point cloud streams" was invented by Ahmed Hamza (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for partial access support in SOBMFF containers for video-based point cloud streams. A video encoding device may partition a 3D space into a first spatial region and a second spatial region, The video encoding device may map the first spatial region to a first set of V-PCC tiles and the second spatial region to a second set of V-PCC ti...