US Patent Issued to Unity Technologies on July 8 for "Volumetric data processing using a flat file format" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,220, issued on July 8, was assigned to Unity Technologies ApS (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"Volumetric data processing using a flat file format" was invented by Shrey Malhotra (Foster City, Calif.), Andriy Andy Chmilenko (Mississauga, Canada) and Adam Myhill (Mayne Island, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method of volumetric data processing include receiving volumetric data corresponding to a digital asset, the digital asset including a plurality of frames; creating a file to represent the volumetric data in a flat file format, the flat file format representing the plurality of frames arranged in a plurality of buffers ...