ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,663, issued on June 30, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Three-dimensional point cloud transmission method and apparatus, three-dimensional point cloud receiving method and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Yiling Xu (Shanghai), Yujie Zhang (Shanghai) and Linyao Gao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a three-dimensional point cloud transmission method and apparatus, a three-dimensional point cloud receiving method and apparatus, and a medium. The transmission method includes the following steps. The point cloud data of an original point cloud is parsed. The quality level of th...