ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,221, issued on June 2, was assigned to PENG CHENG LABORATORY (Shenzhen, China).

"Point cloud attribute encoding method and apparatus, decoding method and apparatus, and related device" was invented by Yueru Chen (Shenzhen, China), Jing Wang (Shenzhen, China), Ge Li (Shenzhen, China) and Wen Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud attribute encoding method and apparatus, a decoding method and apparatus, and a related device are disclosed. The point cloud attribute encoding method includes sorting all point cloud data to be encoded to acquire sorted point cloud data, the point cloud data to be encoded being poi...