ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,790, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Graph signal frequency-domain motion compensation for point cloud attributes coding" was invented by Zhu Li (Overland Park, Kan.) and Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for temporally predictive coding of three-dimensional (3D) dynamic point cloud attributes. A first frame and a second frame of point cloud data are accessed. The point cloud data points include 3D spatial coordinates and one or more graphic attributes. A block tree data structure comprising a plurality of blocks is generated b...