US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Compression of mesh geometry based on 3D patch contours" (German, Belgian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,322, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Compression of mesh geometry based on 3D patch contours" was invented by Aleksei Martemianov (Tampere, Finland), Sebastian Schwarz (Unterhaching, Germany), Patrice Rondao Alface (Evere, Belgium), Lauri Aleksi IIola (Munich) and Lukasz Kondrad (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes one or more processors, and one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to: segment, for a frame of three-dimensional object data, a mesh of the three-dimensional object data into one or ...