ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,732, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Face-oriented geometry streaming" was invented by Joshua Sam Schpok (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides computer-implemented methods, systems, and devices for optimizing data for use in depicting virtual worlds. A computing system accesses data associated with a plurality of three-dimensional tiles representing a portion of a virtual space. The computing system generates a plurality of sub-tiles, wherein a respective sub-tile in the plurality of sub-tiles represents a portion of one or more objects associated with a ...