ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,346, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Virtual vehicle control" was invented by Haosheng Xue (Shenzhen, China), Jinlong Tu (Shenzhen, China) and Zhipeng Luo (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for controlling a virtual vehicle in a virtual scene, an electronic device, and a storage medium relate to the field of virtual scene technologies. In this application, A prop storage mechanism in which special effect action is performed to accumulate acceleration energy and an acceleration prop is added when the accumulated acceleration energy satis...