US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on April 21 for "Virtual accessory using method, related apparatus, device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,630, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual accessory using method, related apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Weijian Cui (Shenzhen, China), Meng Qiu (Shenzhen, China), Cong Tian (Shenzhen, China) and Jingjing He (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual accessory using method includes: displaying, on a target game interface, a first shooting prop and an accessory switching control for the first shooting prop, the first shooting prop being a shooting prop held by a virtual operation object; obtaining a first touch operation on the accessory swi...