ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,064, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Patch creation and signaling for V3C dynamic mesh compression" was invented by Sebastian Schwarz (Munich), Lauri Ilola (Tampere, Finland), Christoph Bachhuber (Munich) and Lukasz Kondrad (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a parameterized mesh, the mesh defining a shape and attributes of an object in three-dimensional space; compressing the mesh to generate a two-dimensional patch of the mesh; and signaling at least one of: projection plane changes within the patch to support patches wrapping around a three-dimensional mode...