ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,531, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Multi object surface image (MOSI) format" was invented by Christiaan Varekamp (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Andy Willems (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing multi-view image data. The method comprises obtaining source view data from a plurality of sensors, the source view data containing source texture data and source depth data of a scene with one or more objects. The positions of one or more of the objects in the scene are obtained and a stack of layers is generated in a virtual scene for at least one ...