US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Dec. 16 for "Independent mapping space for asset interchange using ITMF" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,118, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Independent mapping space for asset interchange using ITMF" 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: "There is included a method and apparatus including computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to parse a scene file to extract scene file data, send the scene file data to a converter, and translate, by the converter and based on a metadata framework, the scene file data from a first scene graph format to a second scene...