ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,845, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Distortion information for each iteration of vertices reconstruction" was invented by Youngkwon Lim (McKinney, Texas), Rajan Laxman Joshi (San Diego) and Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a communication interface configured to receive a compressed bitstream including a base mesh sub-bitstream and a processor operably coupled to the communication interface. The processor is configured to decode a plurality of submeshes from the base mesh sub-bitstream. The processor is also configured to su...