ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,007, issued on July 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" was invented by Chung Dean Han (Singapore), Pongsak Lasang (Singapore), Chi Wang (Singapore), 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 encoding method includes: generating a bitstream by encoding subspaces included in a current space in which three-dimensional points are included. T...