ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,908, issued on July 28, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive linear lifting transform" was invented by Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of mesh decoding, a bitstream that includes prediction information of a plurality of vertices in a mesh frame is received. A prediction value of a current vertex of the plurality of vertices is determined based on (i) a value of the current vertex received in the bitstream and (ii) each distance between the current vertex and one or more neighboring vertices of the cur...