ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,521, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"In-tree geometry quantization of point clouds" was invented by David Flynn (Cupertino, Calif.), Khaled Mammou (Cupertino, Calif.) and Fabrice A. Robinet (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device includes one or more processors, and memory storing instructions that when executed by the processors, cause the processors to receive points that represent a point cloud in three-dimensional space, and generate a data structure representing the point cloud. Generating the data structure includes encoding a position of each point in each dimensi...