ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,502, issued on July 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and method" was invented by Ryohei Takahashi (Tokyo) and Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device and method are capable of inhibiting an increase in the load of a reproduction process. First information about a change in a relationship of a point cloud expressing an object having a three-dimensional shape for three-dimensional spatial regions that are independently decodable is generated, second information about the three-dimensional spatial regions is generated in accordance with the ...