US Patent Issued to Unity Technologies on March 25 for "Systems and methods for rendering a virtual environment using light probes" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,527, issued on March 25, was assigned to Unity Technologies ApS (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"Systems and methods for rendering a virtual environment using light probes" was invented by Yuping Zhang Mester (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Jeremy Weston Cowles (Berkeley, Calif.) and Natalya Tatarchuk (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for rendering light probes in a virtual environment are disclosed. Noisy lighting data is accessed in a data structure associated with a light probe in a set of light probes in an environment. The noisy lighting data is provided as an input to a neural network. T...