ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,225, issued on April 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing method and apparatus, electronic device, program, and readable storage medium" was invented by Wensheng Cao (Shenzhen, China), Wei Cao (Shenzhen, China), Tangxi Chen (Shenzhen, China), Lijun Yuan (Shenzhen, China), Xiaojie Wang (Shenzhen, China), Chong Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Meng Zhai (Shenzhen, China) and Xingyuan Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method includes: acquiring an image size of an image and original image data of the image; creating a first texture storage area according to the...