ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,342, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Split rendering for lightfield immersive media using proxy-edge-cloud architecture" was invented by Paul Spencer Dawkins (Garland, Texas), Rohit Abhishek (San Jose, Calif.) and Arianne Hinds (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for split rendering immersive media using proxy edge cloud computing architecture. The system and method may include dynamically determining a task-split or splitting a task for rendering a scene in an immersive media stream into two or more computational tasks based on one or more processing dela...