ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,316, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Processing the in-between points of a point cloud" was invented by Jean-Claude Chevet (Betton, France), Yannick Olivier (Thorigne Fouillard, France) and Joan Llach (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one embodiment relates to signaling at least one texture patch representing a texture value of at least one in-between 3D sample, a texture patch being a set of 2D samples representing texture values of orthogonally projected 3D samples of a point cloud along projection lines onto a projection plane, and said at least one in-between 3D ...