ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,251, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"V-DMC displacement vector integer quantization" was invented by Geert Van der Auwera (San Diego), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for decoding encoded mesh data determines, based on the encoded mesh data, a base mesh; determine, based on the encoded mesh data, a set of coefficients; receives in the encoded mesh data a quantization parameter value; determines an inverse scaling factor based on the quantization parameter value; performs an inverse scaling, based on the inverse scalin...