US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Dec. 30 for "Method and apparatus for controlling placement of virtual character and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,855, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling placement of virtual character and storage medium" was invented by Chao Shen (Shenzhen, China) and Xueqiang Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling placement of a virtual character includes: displaying a virtual character at a first position in a virtual reality (VR) scene; receiving a first instruction in the VR scene, the first instruction indicating moving the virtual character from the first position by a designated movement; displaying, in response to receiving the fir...