ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,158, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Point cloud coding standard conformance definition in computing environments" was invented by Jill Boyce (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism is described for facilitating defining of interoperability signaling and conformance points for the PCC standard in computing environments. A computing device of embodiments, as described herein, includes a decoder to decode a compressed bitstream of video data representing a point cloud, point cloud reconstructor circuitry to reconstruct a point cloud from the decoded patch video data, a syntax elem...