ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,435, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Illuscio Inc. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for adaptive streaming of point clouds" was invented by Joseph Bogacz (Perth, Canada) and Margaret Falconer Corrigall (Perth, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A streaming system and associated methods provide adaptive streaming of point cloud data for out-of-order presentation of important visual features before less important visual features. The adaptive streaming includes retrieving the points for a requested point cloud, differentiating different sets of points that represent different features in the point cloud, prioritizing e...