ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,025, issued on March 31, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image rendering based on light baking" was invented by Chao Li (Shenzhen, China), Yuanheng Li (Shenzhen, China), Lan Gao (Shenzhen, China) and Nan Wei (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes a rendering method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: determining a texture element in a to-be-rendered scene, and determining a target spatial directional tree corresponding to the to-be-rendered scene. The target spatial directional tree represents an incident ray distribution ...