ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,251, issued on March 24, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Patch zippering for mesh compression" was invented by Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), 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 some examples, an apparatus for mesh coding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a bitstream carrying encoded information of a mesh that is partitioned into patches. The bitstream includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion includes patch information, the secon...