ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,333, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Secondary light occlusion rendering method and apparatus, and related product" was invented by Weimin Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a secondary light occlusion rendering method performed by a computer device. The method includes: obtaining direction information of a secondary light in an environment including a virtual object and data of a plurality of vertexes on a model of the virtual object; decoding the encoding results based on the direction information to obtain decoded vertex occlusion informati...