ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,416, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive integrating duplicated vertices in mesh motion vector coding" was invented by Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain encoded volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, the encoded volumetric data representing a mesh sequence of a plurality of meshes of the 3D visual content, determine a syntax obtained with the encoded volumetric ...