US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for controlling virtual character, device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,624, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling virtual character, device, and storage medium" was invented by Xiao Hu (Shenzhen, China), Chen Su (Shenzhen, China), Yuwei Ding (Shenzhen, China) and Danxing Xu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for controlling a virtual character. The process of controlling the virtual character may include displaying a first virtual character and a first control group, the first control group comprising a first-type control. The process may also include switching...