US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 22 for "Planar and azimuthal mode in geometric point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,074, issued on April 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Planar and azimuthal mode in geometric point cloud compression" was invented by Geert Van der Auwera (San Diego), Bappaditya Ray (San Diego), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for encoding point cloud data, the device comprising: a memory to store the point cloud data; and one or more processors coupled to the memory and implemented in circuitry, the one or more processors configured to: determine a horizontal plane position of a node, wherein the horizontal plane position indicate...