ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,450, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for real-time streaming of volumetric video" was invented by Peter Oluwanisola Fasogbon (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments relate to a method, comprising receiving a plurality of volumetric frames representing an object in a scene from a multi-camera system, wherein a volumetric frame comprises color components and a depth component; determining at least partial overlaps of views presented by the volumetric frames between neighboring cameras of the multi-camera system to dete...