ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,715, issued on July 29, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for streaming volumetric video content" was invented by Lauri Aleksi Ilola (Tampere, Finland), Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate (Tampere, Finland), Saba Ahsan (Espoo, Finland), Igor Danilo Diego Curcio (Gravina di Catania, Italy), Lukasz Kondrad (Munich) and Kashyap Kammachi Sreedhar (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments relate to methods for encoding and decoding, and technical equipment for the same. The method for encoding obtaining two or more representations of volumetric media co...