ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,020, issued on July 29, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for generating texture map of 3-dimensional mesh" was invented by Soo-Woong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung-Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji-Hoon Do (Daejeon, South Korea), Gun Bang (Daejeon, South Korea), Seong-Jun Bae (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin-Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ha-Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for generating a texture map of a 3D mesh includes encoding a texture map of a 3D mesh, quantizing the encoded texture map,...