ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,633, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Reference of neural network model by immersive media for adaptation of media for streaming to heterogenous client end-points" was invented by Arianne Hinds (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Stephan Wenger (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for streaming immersive media. Content is ingested in a first two-dimension format or a first three-dimensional format, whereby the format references a neural network. The ingested content is converted to a second two-dimensional or a second three-dimen...