ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,187, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Vora Ventures LLC (Blue Ash, Ohio).

"Global real time on demand rendering" was invented by Chris Beard (Lebanon, Ohio) and Brian Powell (Springboro, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real time, on demand rendered image delivery may be provided using one or more local image servers, image stores corresponding to the local image servers, one or more rendering servers, and a global image store. When a request for an image of three dimensional object is provided to a local image server, that server may respond to the request by determining if is present in its corresponding local image store. If ...