ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,398, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (China).

"Point cloud attribute entropy encoding method and device, and point cloud attribute entropy decoding method and device" was invented by Ge Li (Shenzhen, China), Chuang Ma (Shenzhen, China), Jing Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Yiting Shao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a point cloud attribute entropy encoding method and device, and a point cloud attribute entropy decoding method and device. The encoding method comprises: if an overall encoding processing condition of point cloud attribute residual co...