ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,630, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image rendering method and related apparatus" was invented by Chunhui Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Qingchao Hu (Shenzhen, China) and Ge Guan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image rendering method includes obtaining texture data corresponding to a particle road condition map in which particle movement simulates vehicle movement reflecting road traffic conditions. The texture data includes texel data corresponding to each road section in the particle road condition map, and the texel data includes location data of reference ...