ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,470, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Guiding movement of virtual object" was invented by Yajing Xu (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for guiding movement of a virtual object in a virtual environment, a guidance indicator for guiding the movement of the virtual object in the virtual environment is displayed. When a distance between a first game asset and the virtual object in the virtual environment is less than or equal to a first distance threshold associated with the first game asset, guidance information corresponding to the first game asset ...