ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,788, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SHANGHAI LILITH TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Shanghai).

"Method, device, medium and computer program product for controlling the movement of a virtual body" was invented by Hao Meng (Shanghai), Guanyu Feng (Shanghai), Peixuan Huang (Shanghai), Xiaowei Kong (Shanghai), Yujing Lyu (Shanghai) and Ming Fang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device (800), a medium for controlling the movement of a virtual body (107), including: a target determining step, in the first frame, based on the moving direction and position of the virtual body (107), selecting a virtual object (103) in a predetermin...