ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,027, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Point cloud data transmission device, point cloud data transmission method, point cloud data reception device, and point cloud data reception method" was invented by Hyejung Hur (Seoul, South Korea) and Sejin Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for receiving point cloud data, including receiving a bitstream containing the point cloud data, and decoding the point cloud data. Disclosed herein is a method for transmitting point cloud data, including encoding the point cloud data, and transmitting a bitstream ...