ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,687, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"High-level syntax design for geometry-based point cloud compression" was invented by Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Bappaditya Ray (San Diego), Geert Van der Auwera (San Diego), Louis Joseph Kerofsky (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for decoding point cloud data includes memory configured to store the point cloud data and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine dimensions of a region box and determi...