US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS and TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 19 for "Apparatus and method for compressing three-dimensional volume data" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,992, issued on May 19, was assigned to ELECTRONICS and TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for compressing three-dimensional volume data" was invented by Soo-Woong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung-Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Gun Bang (Daejeon, South Korea), Seong-Jun Bae (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin-Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha-Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sung-Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for compressing 3D volume data. The apparatus for compressing three-dimensional (3D) volume data includes ...