ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,979, issued on April 21, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Partitioning, rendering, and blending of extended reality application instances" was invented by Philipp Landgraf (Altenmarkt a.d. Alz, Germany) and Alexander Werlberger (Haimhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extended reality (XR) streaming method of streaming XR images to an XR device is described. The XR streaming method comprising, generating, virtual content to be rendered with an XR application instance; partitioning the virtual content to be rendered into a plurality of rendering jobs with the XR application instance; forwa...