ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,333, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional data storage method, three-dimensional data acquisition method, three-dimensional data storage device, and three-dimensional data acquisition device" was invented by Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data storage method includes: acquiring one or more units in which an encoded stream generated by encoding point cloud data is stored; and storing the one or more units into a file. The storing includes storing, in control in...