US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 4 for "Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" (Singaporean, Japanese, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,275, issued on March 4, 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 (Johor Bahru, Malaysia), Pongsak Lasang (Singapore), Pradit Mittrapiyanuruk (Singapore), Keng Liang Loi (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: determining a first maximum bit count for encoded data obtained af...