ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,529, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mesh retexturing in an extended reality environment" was invented by Devin Bhushan (San Jose, Calif.), Caelin Thomas Jackson-King (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stanislav Yazhenskikh (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jim Jiaming Zhu (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations set forth a computer-implemented method for scanning a three-dimensional (3D) environment. The method includes generating, in a first time interval, a first extended reality (XR) stream based on a first set of meshes representing a 3D environment, transmitting, to a ...