ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,663, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, apparatus and device for controlling virtual skills in virtual scene, medium and program product" was invented by Yu Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for controlling virtual skills in a virtual scene includes: rendering a first virtual object and a skill identifier of a virtual skill of the first virtual object in the virtual scene; controlling, in response to a moving instruction for the skill identifier, the skill identifier to move in the virtual scene, the moving instruction being triggered by a joystick dev...