ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,168, issued on July 14, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Point cloud coding method" was invented by Fuzheng Yang (Dongguan, China), Junyan Huo (Dongguan, China), Yanzhuo Ma (Dongguan, China) and Ming Li (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud decoding method is applied to a decoder and includes the following. Reconstructed attribute information of occupied neighbouring nodes of a current node and reconstructed attribute information of occupied same-level neighbouring child nodes of a child node of the current node are determined. An attribute prediction valu...