ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,413, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Coding of displacements using hierarchical coding at subdivision level for vertex mesh (V-MESH)" was invented by 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 and a processor operably coupled to the communication interface. The processor is configured to subdivide an intermediate mesh-frame, created from a reconstructed first displacement field and a first subdivided mesh-frame, to create a second subdivided mesh-frame. The processor is also co...