US Patent Issued to NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK on Sept. 1 for "Game control method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,084, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK Co. LTD. (Hangzhou City, China).

"Game control method and apparatus" was invented by Xiao Wu (Hangzhou, China) and Kui Jin (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game control method is provided. The method comprises: acquiring the distance between a game character and a shielding face, and an included angle between the orientation of the game character and a vertical line of the shielding face; displaying a bunker-entering control on a graphical user interface when the distance is smaller than or equal to a first preset distance and the included angle is sm...