ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,033, issued on June 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatuses for decoding and encoding point cloud data" was invented by Wenjie Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for decoding and encoding point cloud data, which may be applied to scenes such as cloud technology, smart transportation, and assisted driving. The decoding method includes: obtaining encoded data of a data block in point cloud data, determining a target decoding parameter of the data block according to a target encoding parameter corresponding t...