ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,197, issued on April 7, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Local space texture mapping based on reverse projection" was invented by Xuan Wei Adrian Lim (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to render an object with a decal texture applied thereon. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a polygon mesh of an object. The method further includes determining a positional map and a normal map by applying a rasterization function to the polygon mesh. The method further includes receiving a target t...