ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,865, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding multi plane image based volumetric video" was invented by Seong Jun Bae (Daejeon, South Korea), Gun Bang (Daejeon, South Korea), Soo Woong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Hoon Do (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding multi plane image (MPI)-based volumetric video. A method for encoding a MP...