ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,521, issued on May 26, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"Hierarchical Lorentzian latent structures for immersive video compression and continuous exploration" was invented by Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for immersive video compression and continuous exploration using hierarchical Lorentzian latent structures. Spatiotemporal media is encoded into hierarchical mini-Lorentzian representations using Lorentzian autoencoders operating at multiple scales (Hmacro, Hmeso, Hmicro) that preserve tensor structure, temporal causality, and geometric rela...