ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,593, issued on June 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" was invented by Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: obtaining an item of geometry information and one or more items of attribute information of each of one or more encoded three-dimensional points; and storing an item of control information and any one...