ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,479, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual scene segmentation and parallel loading" was invented by Yachang Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes segmenting a virtual scene into virtual plots and allocating each virtual plot respectively to each of scene devices in response to start-up messages transmitted by the scene devices. The method further includes transmitting a first loading message to two or more scene devices of the plural scene devices. The first loading message instructs the two or more scene devices to load in parallel, into respective...