ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,308, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"3D scene description data, scene rendering apparatus for rendering a scene from 3D scene description data, and apparatus for encoding a scene into 3D scene description data" was invented by Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Peter Eisert (Berlin), Anna Hilsmann (Berlin), Robert Skupin (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Wieland Morgenstern (Berlin) and Gurdeep Singh Bhullar (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scene rendering apparatus for rendering a scene from a 3D scene description da...