US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 12 for "Adaptive geometry filtering for mesh compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,412, issued on May 12, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive geometry filtering for mesh compression" was invented by Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun Tian (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 determine more than one vertices in an input mesh, and group the more than one vertices in more than one group of vertices. The grouping of a respective vertex in a respective group may be based on a topolog...