ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,782, issued on June 30, was assigned to NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Video game with position swapping in respawn queue" was invented by Ruijia Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an in-game processing method, an in-game processing apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining, in response to character attributes of a virtual object satisfying a first attribute threshold, a first order, in which the character attributes of the virtual object are restored to a second attribute threshold, configured by the game application; in response to an order...