US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 1 for "Triangle fan corner attribute indices compression" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,359, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Triangle fan corner attribute indices compression" was invented by Khaled Mammou (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mesh encoder and decoders are disclosed, wherein attributes associated with mesh vertices are encoded using an attribute indices encoder, an attribute traverser, and an attribute vectors encoder. The indices encoder may re-order the attribute indices to improve compression and generate associated reordering information. Additionally, the attribute vector encoder predicts attribute vector values based on already processed (e.g. encoded...