ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,242, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NetEase Information Technology Corp. (Pasadena, Calif.).
"Techniques for improved graphics on devices with limited graphics processing capabilities" was invented by Ray Tran (London), John Elliot Meier (Bothell, Wash.), Brian 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 dividing the work involved in rendering a high quality depiction of a virtual scene between a local device and a cloud-based system in a manner that leverages the computing power of both. Specifically, the client applications request lighting information, fro...