ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,926, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Motion field coding in dynamic mesh compression" was invented by Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun Tian (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiang Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain a mesh sequence comprising a plurality of meshes corresponding to volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, obtain a frame of the mesh sequence corresponding to the volumet...