ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,323, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Point cloud encoding/decoding processing method and apparatus, encoding device, and decoding device" was invented by Wei Zhang (Guangdong, China), Fuzheng Yang (Guangdong, China), Jiaming Nie (Guangdong, China) and Zhuoyi Lv (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud encoding/decoding processing method and apparatus, an encoding device, and a decoding device. The point cloud encoding processing method according to the embodiments of this application includes: performing, by an encoding end, synchronous multi-branch tree...