ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,005, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Platform and method for collaborative generation of content" was invented by Rev Lebaredian (Los Gatos, Calif.), Michael Kass (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Harris (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrey Shulzhenko (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Dmitry Duka (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-centric platform is used for generating virtual three-dimensional (3D) content, that allows users to collaborate online and that can be connected to different software tools (applications). Using the platform, virtual environments (e.g., scenes, worlds, universes) c...