ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,600, issued on March 25, 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 Sooyeon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sejin Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud data transmission method according to embodiments may comprise the steps of: encoding point cloud data; and transmitting a bitstream including the point cloud data. A point cloud data reception method according to embodiments may comprise the steps of receiving a bitstream compr...