ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,781, issued on May 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing device and information processing method associated with compression of point cloud data obtained by sensing the vicinity of a moving body" was invented by Motoshi Anabuki (Hyogo, Japan) and Yoshimasa Honda (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a point cloud data obtainer that obtains point cloud data obtained by sensing a vicinity of a moving body or stored in a point cloud database; a traffic information obtainer that obtains traffic information in the vic...