ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,781, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Processing a point cloud" was invented by Julien Ricard (Plouer-sur-Rance, France), Celine Guede (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Yannick Olivier (Thorigne Fouillard, France), Joan Llach Pinsach (London) and David Gendron (Chevaigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods and devices for adding at least one 3D sample to a point cloud frame and for assigning a color-coding mode to said at least one 3D sample, said color-coding mode indicating if color information associated with said at least one 3D sample is explicitly encoded in ...