ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,585, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods of sampling-based objective quality assessment for meshes" was invented by Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), 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 including receiving, at an encoder, a first original polygonal mesh and a second distorted polygonal mesh, the first original polygonal mesh being an original polygonal mesh and the second polygonal mesh being a distorted polygonal mesh; converting the first polygonal mesh and the second polygonal mesh into two or more triangle meshes b...