ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,166, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Bifurcated transmission of 3D data encoded as octrees" was invented by Muhammad Haseeb (New York), Eugene Chai (Murray Hill, N.J.) and Matteo Varvello (Holmdel, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, higher-level octree telepresence data for a point cloud of a 3D object is transmitted using a reliable transport mechanism that ensures successful transmission, e.g., via re-transmission of dropped packets, and lower-level octree data for the point cloud is transmitted using a non-reliable transport mechanism that does not guar...