US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on March 25 for "Methods and apparatus for point cloud compression bitstream format" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,597, issued on March 25, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmingto, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for point cloud compression bitstream format" was invented by Ahmed Hamza (Montreal) and Yong He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, architectures and interfaces for encoding and/or decoding point cloud bitstreams including coded point cloud sequences are provided. Included among such methods, apparatuses, systems, architectures, and interfaces is an apparatus that may include a processor and memory. A method may include any of: mapping components of the point cloud bitstream into tracks...