US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on June 3 for "Using a hierarchical organization of a texture atlas to render visible image portions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,029, issued on June 3, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Using a hierarchical organization of a texture atlas to render visible image portions" was invented by Reza Nourai (Danville, Calif.), Volga Aksoy (Redwood City, Calif.) and Zeyar Htet (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes a step of receiving a geometric representation of a virtual object and a texture atlas, the geometric representation comprising multiple geometric primitives defining a shape of the virtual object, the texture atlas comprises regions each of which is allocated to include shad...