ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,919, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Point cloud coding/decoding method and apparatus, device and storage medium" was invented by Wenjie Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a point cloud decoding performed by an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a current point to be decoded from a point cloud code stream, the current point comprising N types of attribute information, and N being an integer greater than 1; determining M attribute groups of the N types of attribute information of the current point, M being a positive integer le...