ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,296, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Point cloud encoding method and apparatus, point cloud decoding method and apparatus, and communication device" was invented by Wei Zhang (Guangdong, China), Fuzheng Yang (Guangdong, China), Jingyun Lu (Guangdong, China) and Zhuoyi Lv (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud encoding and decoding method and apparatus, and pertains to the field of point cloud processing technologies. The point cloud encoding method in embodiments of this application includes: An encoder determines, based on attribute information of tar...