ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,850, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for video encoding and video decoding" was invented by Lukasz Kondrad (Munich), Emre Baris Aksu (Tampere, Finland), Lauri Aleksi Ilola (Tampere, Finland) and Vinod Kumar Malamal Vadakital (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments relate to a method and a technical equipment for implementing the method. The method comprises (210) creating a scene structure for a three-dimensional media content, wherein the scene structure comprises three-dimensional data for objects of the three-...