ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,303, issued on March 31, was assigned to Activision Publishing Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Computer-implemented methods for generating level of detail assets for dynamic rendering during a videogame session" was invented by Johan Kohler (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Josiah Michael Bartoszek Manson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification discloses systems and methods of creating a point cloud around a portion of a virtual landscape of a video game. A mesh is generated based on the point cloud, and then the mesh is simplified to create a series of proxy meshes that are dynamically used to render level of detai...