US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on April 7 for "Auxiliary virtual object control in virtual scene" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,499, issued on April 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Auxiliary virtual object control in virtual scene" was invented by Fenlin Cai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for controlling an auxiliary virtual object in a virtual scene, a first virtual object is controlled to select a lock target in the virtual scene for the auxiliary virtual object. A lock command for the selected lock target is received. The auxiliary virtual object is controlled to enter a first assist state based on the lock command when the lock target is a second virtual object in the virtual scene...