ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,020, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Triangulation methods with boundary information for dynamic mesh compression" was invented by Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun Tian (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus that receives a coded video bitstream from an encoder; retrieves, from the coded video bitstream, a mesh including a plurality of polygons that describe a surface of a volumetric object; triangulates one or more vertices of the mesh, the one or more v...