ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,275, issued on May 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, device, and computer program product for compressing point cloud data" was invented by Zhisong Liu (Shenzhen, China), Zijia Wang (London) and Bin He (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating an intra-frame point cloud and an inter-frame point cloud based on point cloud data that includes a plurality of point cloud frames. The method further includes generating a motion vector associated with the intra-frame point cloud based on the intra-frame point cloud and the inter-frame point cloud. The method further includes generat...