ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,794, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Virtual item selection interface" was invented by Jiajing Sui (Shenzhen, China) and Yue Wu (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting a virtual item is provided. In the method, an item selection element is displayed. An item selection control interface is displayed based on a continuous touch operation that is initially performed on the item selection element. The item selection control interface includes at least one candidate virtual item. The selected virtual item is determined as one of the at least one c...