ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,148, issued on April 7, was assigned to Holo-Light GmbH (Innsbruck, Austria).

"Framework for efficient generation and streaming of augmented frames of colors and depth data" was invented by Alexander Werlberger (Haimhausen, Germany), Philipp Landgraf (Altenmarkt a.d. Alz, Germany) and Krzysztof Lesiak (Aschheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an augmented frame comprising depth information is described. The method comprises: generating color information associated with pixels of a first frame of an image; generating depth information, wherein the depth information comprises a distance of each of the pix...