ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,505, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Point cloud encoding and decoding method and device based on two-dimensional regularization plane projection" was invented by Fuzheng Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Wei Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a point cloud encoding and decoding method and device based on a two-dimensional regularization plane projection. The encoding method includes: acquiring original point cloud data; performing two-dimensional regularization plane projection on the original point cloud data to obtain a two-dimensional projection plane structure;...