ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,921, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Scene encoding for multi-user mixed-reality telepresence" was invented by Eugene Chai (Murray Hill, N.J.), Kittipat Apicharttrisorn (Murray Hill, N.J.), Sarit Mukherjee (Murray Hill, N.J.), Limin Wang (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Hyunseok Chang (Holmdel, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scene encoding subsystem for multi-user mixed-reality telepresence has at least one encoder that processes signals from a plurality of cameras. A scene manager determines relative priorities of the cameras and allocates CPU resources and GPU resources in the at l...