ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,194, issued on March 3, was assigned to Unity Technologies ApS (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"Method and system for distributed rendering for simulation" was invented by Steven David Lively (Wylie, Texas), Justin A. Graham (Lafayette, Calif.), Priyeshkumar Wani (San Francisco), Travis Paul Dorschel (Sammamish, Wash.), Viraf Zack (Foster City, Calif.) and Zoe Bare (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of rendering a scene in a three-dimensional environment using a plurality of metaframes is disclosed. Data from digital objects within a three-dimensional (3D) environment is loaded. Motion for the digital objects is determined...