US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 24 for "Compression techniques for vertices of graphic models" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,286, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Compression techniques for vertices of graphic models" was invented by Lars M. Lindberg (Bjaerred, Sweden) and Ali Sazegari (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for lossy and lossless pre-processing of image data. In one embodiment, a method for lossy pre-processing image data, where the method may include, at a computing device: receiving the image data, where the image data includes a model having a mesh, the mesh includes vertices defining a surface, the vertices including attribute vectors, and the attribute vectors including values. The...