ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,666, issued on April 8, was assigned to Dassault Systemes (Velizy-villacoublay, France).

"Multi-instanced simulations for large environments" was invented by Guilherme Cunha (Velizy-Villacoublay, France), Everton Hermann (Velizy-Villacoublay, France) and Cyril Ngo Ngoc (Velizy-Villacoublay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure notably relates to a computer-implemented method for simulating together a plurality of physics simulation instances included in a global physics simulation. The method includes creating a database of local simulation instances. The creating includes providing a set of local simulations. The set...