ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,615, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Scene graph translation" was invented by Arianne Hinds (Palo Alto, Calif.), Paul Spencer Dawkins (Garland, Texas) and Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media data of a first scene graph is received. The first scene graph is created based on a first scene graph format. The first scene graph format includes a plurality of description components indicating attributes of the first scene graph. A plurality of metadata identifiers associated with the first scene graph format and a plurality of metadata identifiers associated wi...