ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,286, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OS AMERICA (New York).

"Estimation of density distortion metric for processing of point cloud geometry" was invented by Alexandre Zaghetto (San Jose, Calif.), Danillo Bracco Graziosi (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Ali Tabatabai (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and method for estimation of density distortion metric for processing of point cloud geometry is provided. The electronic device acquires a reference point cloud, encodes the reference point cloud to generate encoded point cloud data, and decodes the encoded point...