ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,743, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method of sharing unreal engine derived data cache files" was invented by Haitao Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zhong Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kexue Wei (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modifying engine files, the method performed by at least one processor in one or more servers at a cloud based location, the method comprising receiving, by the one or more servers at the cloud based location from at least one host device, a derived data cache (DDC) generated by the at least one host device; distri...