ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,290, issued on March 24, was assigned to TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE INC. (New York).

"Temporally coherent volumetric video" was invented by Vsevolod Kagarlitsky (Ramat Gan, Israel), Shirley Keinan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amir Green (Mitzpe Netofa, Israel), Michal Heker (Tel Aviv, Israel), Michael Birnboim (Holon, Israel) and Gilad Talmon (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a volumetric video in which all frames are temporally coherent. Method for generating a temporally coherent plurality of frames in a volumetric video, including finding a deformation field transforming a source frame ...