ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,723, issued on June 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"VR interaction method and apparatus" was invented by Yintang Ni (Shenzhen, China), Bingjie Huang (Shanghai) and Baotai Shao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, implemented by a terminal, includes sending, to a wearable device, a virtual reality (VR) start instruction when the terminal starts running a first VR application, wherein the VR start instruction instructs the wearable device to switch from a normal running mode to a VR mode, receiving, from the wearable device and in response to a first operation by a user on a VR basic ...