ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,924, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Point cloud attribute coding method, point cloud attribute decoding method, and terminal" was invented by Wei Zhang (Guangdong, China), Jingyun Lu (Guangdong, China), Zhuoyi Lv (Guangdong, China), Fuzheng Yang (Guangdong, China) and Na Dai (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud attribute coding method, a point cloud attribute decoding method, and a terminal are provided. The point cloud attribute coding method includes: obtaining a to-be-coded point cloud; partitioning the to-be-coded point cloud into at least one ...