ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,484, issued on March 25, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).
"Real-time non-photo-realistic rendering" was invented by Megan Stifter (Los Angeles), Andrew E. Wood (Pasadena, Calif.) and Evan A. Binder (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one exemplary implementation, a system includes processing hardware and a system memory storing a non-photo-realistic (NPR) renderer. The processing hardware is configured to execute the NPR renderer to receive a digital asset, display a preliminary image corresponding to the digital asset, and receive editing data identifying an NPR effect. The processing ...