ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,970, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hexagon Technology Center GmbH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Systems and method for physically based rendering" was invented by Alfredo Arce (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Illustrative embodiments generate a physical base rendering (PBR) palette that provides improved fidelity in images rendered by a computer aided design system. For example, where a CAD system operator has a basic shading palette for an existing design, and where the CAD system operator desires to generate images of the existing design from a PBR palette instead, illustrative embodiments process the basic shading...