US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 17 for "Vertex position coding in mesh compression" (California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,522, issued on June 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Vertex position 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: "In a method, a plurality of candidate predictions of a current vertex is determined. The current vertex is included in a plurality of vertices of a mesh. The plurality of candidate predictions is determined based on a plurality of triangles in the mesh. Each of the plurality of predictions corresponds to a r...