US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 15 for "Grouping of mesh vertices in position compression" (California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,275, issued on July 15, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Grouping of mesh vertices in position 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 vertices corresponding to a mesh of a current frame that is positionally tracked is divided into a plurality of vertex groups based on a predetermined constant integer. The plurality of vertex groups includes a first vertex group. A first position of a current vertex in the first vertex...