ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,587, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Evolution of non-player characters" was invented by Wei Xie (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring a character in a game includes generating a first non-player character of a first generation in the game, the first generation being associated with a first difficulty level, and detecting a target event affecting the first non-player character of the first generation in the game. The method further includes, based on the first non-player character of the first generation affected by the target event, obtai...