ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,126, issued on July 14, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Point cloud encoding method and decoding method, and encoder and decoder" was invented by Hui Yuan (Dongguan, China), Xiaohui Wang (Dongguan, China), Lu Wang (Dongguan, China), Qi Liu (Dongguan, China) and Ming Li (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a point cloud encoding method and decoding method, and an encoder and a decoder. The encoding method includes: processing attribute information of a target point in a point cloud, so as to obtain a predicted residual of the attribute information of the t...