ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,452, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Methods and devices for coding and decoding a multi-view video sequence" was invented by Felix Henry (Chatillon, France) and Joel Jung (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for coding and decoding a coded data stream representative of a multi-view video. The coded data stream includes data representative of at least one atlas, which corresponds to an image having at least one patch. The at least one patch corresponds to a set of pixels extracted from at least one component of a view of the multi-view video, the view not being coded in t...