US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Nov. 3 for "Vertex position prediction in mesh compression" (California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,282, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Vertex position prediction in mesh compression" was invented by Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of mesh processing, a mesh includes a current vertex in a plurality of vertices. A plurality of candidate predictions of the current vertex is determined based on a plurality of triangles in the mesh. Each of the plurality of triangles corresponds to a respective candidate prediction. A predict...