ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,131, issued on June 3, was assigned to Unity IPR ApS (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"Method and system for displaying a large 3D model on a remote device" was invented by Francis Ruben Malka (Saint-Lambert, Canada) and Nicholas John Constantinidis (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of displaying a digital object on a device is disclosed. A set of unique identifiers and associated is downloaded for a set of digital objects within a 3D model. A position and an orientation of a virtual camera is determined relative to the positions of the set of digital objects. A visibility score for each digital object of the set of digital...