ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,822, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NetEase Information Technology Corp. (Pasadena, Colo.).

"Streaming lighting information for sychnonized scenes from cloud-based systems" was invented by Ray Tran (London), John Elliot Meier (Bothell, Wash.), Brian Allen Neal (Los Angeles) and Ross Alan Gardner (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for sending a stream of lighting information for a synchronized scene from a cloud-based system to a set of synchronized client applications. Sending the stream includes detecting a series of changes in configuration of lighting for the synchronized scene, and after de...