US Patent Issued to Illuscio on March 4 for "Systems and methods for reducing point cloud and texture data using adapted splatting techniques" (New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,150, issued on March 4, was assigned to Illuscio Inc. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for reducing point cloud and texture data using adapted splatting techniques" was invented by Sean Looper (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Thomas Matterson (Breaker Bay, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimization system reduces the data encoded within a point cloud for streaming and/or rendering of a lossy representation of the point cloud. The optimization system generates a first optimized splat for a first visual characteristic of the point cloud by replacing a first set of points having a first common value for the first visual...