ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,343, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Base mesh data and motion information sub-stream format for video-based dynamic mesh compression" was invented by Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Dimitri Podborski (Cupertino, Calif.), Jungsun Kim (Sunnyval, Calif.) and Khaled Mammou (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for a three-dimensional mesh. To compress the three-dimensional mesh, the encoder determines a compressed base mesh bit stream and a compressed motion bitstream. A network abstraction layer syntax defined fo...