ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,169, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Volumetric capture through internet-of-things-based cameras" was invented by Charan Acharya Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India), Shridhara Hegde (Bengaluru, India) and Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for volumetric capture is provided. The present invention may include constructing a graph data structure representing a network topology of a volumetric array; and continually recording volumetric data of a subject using at...