ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,641, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Rendering content crossing a portal" was invented by Yujin R. Ariza (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of rendering a scene including a portal is performed by a device including one or more processors and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining a rendering of first content having a plurality of first pixels at respective pixel locations having respective first pixel color values. The method includes obtaining a portal count map having a plurality of portal count pixels at the respective pixel locations ...