US Patent Issued to Tencent America on July 21 for "Volumetric realtime fog of war" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,935, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Volumetric realtime fog of war" was invented by Benjamin Bickle (Palo Alto, Calif.), Theodore Park (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Cuevas (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Gavin Newton Glenn Mcdowell (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a volumetric effect on a game map of a video game is provided. In the method, a variable density volume of the game map is determined based on a mesh of the game map and a bounding box. The variable density volume includes the volumetric effect. The variable density volume is sliced into a plurality o...