ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,289, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud encoding method comprises: processing position information of a target point in a point cloud to obtain reconstruction information of the position information of the target point; obtaining an initial predicted value of attribute information of the tar...