ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,864, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Point cloud data transmission device, point cloud data transmission method, point cloud data reception device and point cloud data reception method" was invented by Yousun Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hyejung Hur (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunmook Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Sooyeon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud data transmission method according to embodiments may comprise the steps of: encoding geometry information including the positions of points of the point cloud data; encoding, on the basis of the geometry informat...