US Patent Issued to Tencent America on July 1 for "Texture coordinate coding in mesh compression" (California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,773, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Texture coordinate coding in mesh compression" was invented by Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of candidate predictions of a current vertex is determined. The current vertex is one of a plurality of vertices of a mesh. Each of the plurality of candidate predictions is determined based on a respective one of a plurality of triangles in the mesh and including two-dimensional (2D) coordinate...