ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,410, issued on May 12, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Point cloud coding method, encoder and decoder" was invented by Shuai Wan (Guangdong, China) and Zhecheng Wang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud coding method is provided. The method includes the following. Occupancy bit information of neighbouring nodes of a current node is obtained. A context model is determined according to the occupancy bit information of the neighbouring nodes. Related information of the current node is entropy encoded with the context model and signalled into a bitstream, wh...