ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,142, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Geometry coordinate scaling for AI-based dynamic point cloud coding" was invented by Anique Akhtar (Kansas City, Miss.), Geert Van der Auwera (San Diego), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Marta Karczewicz (San Diego) and Luong Pham Van (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for decoding point cloud data includes a memory configured to store point cloud data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine a number of times to upscale a downscaled encoded representation of a point cloud geometry; dec...