ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,114, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device of encoding point cloud data and method and device of decoding point cloud device" was invented by Hyejung Hur (Seoul, South Korea) and Sejin Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for processing point cloud data according to embodiments, point cloud data can be encoded and transmitted to a bitstream. In a method for processing point cloud data according to embodiments, a bitstream comprising point cloud data can be received, and the point cloud data can be decoded."

The patent was filed on May 29, 2020, ...