US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Sept. 30 for "Encoding method, decoding method, encoding device, and decoding device" (Singaporean, Japanese, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,379, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Encoding method, decoding method, encoding device, and decoding device" was invented by Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan), Chung Dean Han (Johor Bahru, Malaysia), Keng Liang Loi (Singapore) and Zheng Wu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method for encoding three-dimensional points each having a position represented by a distance and an angle, the encoding method comprising: identifying three-dimensional points that belong to a second proces...