US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Patch data unit coding and decoding for point-cloud coding" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,270, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Patch data unit coding and decoding for point-cloud coding" was invented by Vladyslav Zakharchenko (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jianle Chen (San Diego) and Kangying Cai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of point cloud coding (PCC) including receiving encoded patch information data; obtaining a patch corresponding to the encoded patch information data, the patch having a patch type; determining whether the patch type for the patch is a last patch type; and terminating a reconstruction process corresponding to the encoded patch information d...