ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,866, issued on March 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device for transmitting point cloud data, method for transmitting point cloud data, device for receiving point cloud data, and method for receiving point cloud data" was invented by Hyunmook Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Sejin Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting point cloud data according to embodiments may comprise the steps of: encoding the point cloud data; and/or transmitting a bitstream including the point cloud data and signaling information. A method for receiving point cloud data according to embodiment...