ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,883, issued on May 27, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Techniques and apparatus for automatic ROI chunking for content-aware point cloud compression using HEVC tiles" was invented by Arash Vosoughi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sehoon Yea (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Stephan Wenger (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of dynamic point cloud partition packing is by at least one processor and includes obtaining one or more region of interest (ROI) patches from an ROI of a point cloud, and attempting to pack, into one among tiles of a til...