ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,193, issued on March 3, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Particle rendering method and apparatus" was invented by Liyou Xu (Beijing) and Jinyuan Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a particle rendering method and apparatus, which relate to the technical field of image rendering. The method includes: obtaining state information of a target particle; obtaining a fall duration of the target particle if the state information is first state information indicating that no collision with the target particle occurred; obtaining a first position bas...