ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,341, issued on April 8, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for media scene description" was invented by Shuai Zhao (Pleasanton, Calif.), Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for managing media storage and delivery, including obtaining, by a media access function (MAF), a glTF file corresponding to a scene; determining that the glTF file has a CBOR format; converting the glTF file into a converted glTF file having a JSON format using a first CBOR parser function implemented by the MAF; and obtaining ...