ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,299, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Graphics rendering apparatus and method" was invented by Lazaros Michailidis (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics rendering apparatus, comprising: a first receiving unit configured to receive mesh data comprising a mesh that defines a geometry of a virtual element that is comprised within a virtual environment of a video game; a second receiving unit configured to receive one or more input signals; an animation unit configured to cause the virtual element to perform a given predefined action in response to one or more of the input sig...