ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,417, issued on June 9, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Transmission of volumetric images in multiplane imaging format" was invented by Taoran Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Peng Yin (Ithaca, Calif.), Guan-Ming Su (Fremont, Calif.), Dae Yeol Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Sean Thomas McCarthy (San Francisco), Tsung-Wei Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sejin Oh (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for transmission of volumetric images in the MPI format. According to an example embodiment, texture and alpha layers of multiplane images are packe...