ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,911, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Display method and apparatus for virtual vehicle, device, and storage medium" was invented by Xiaoquan Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display method for a virtual vehicle is provided. In the method, whether a controlled virtual object has obtained each of a plurality of virtual parts of the virtual vehicle is determined. A graphical element that is associated with the virtual vehicle is displayed based on the plurality of virtual parts being obtained by the controlled virtual object. The virtual vehicle is dis...