ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,809, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatuses for dynamic mesh compression" was invented by Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for mesh coding (e.g., compression and decompression). In some examples, an apparatus for mesh coding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes, using a point cloud compression (PCC) decoder and from a bitstream, a point cloud that includes points corresponding to at least one of ve...