US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 13 for "Vertex reordering for mesh compression" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,941, issued on May 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for mesh coding (e.g., compression and decompression). In some examples, an apparatus for mesh coding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes an array of attributes from a bitstream carrying a three dimensional (3D) mesh frame that ...