ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,193, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RYFF INC. (Los Angeles).

"3D media elements in 2D video" was invented by Spencer Stephens (Los Angeles), Royston Taylor (Los Angeles) and Mark Turner (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing media content includes aggregating, by at least one hardware processor, a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) images to obtain a 3D volume representation of a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) images of media content. A 3D void space associated with the plurality of 2D images is segmented based on the 3D volume representation into a plurality of 3D void segments. A media element i...