ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,930, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to WTS Paradigm LLC (Middleton, Wis.).

"Feature layers for rendering of design options" was invented by James Lang (Middleton, Wis.), Kevin Wilson (Middleton, Wis.) and Nathan Herbst (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating electronic renderings using feature layers. A set of sample electronic renderings can be generated for a virtual space based on feature data (e.g., including a set of features of the virtual space). Rendering data can be determined based on the set of sample electronic renderings, wherein the rendering data includes a set...