ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,046, issued on June 2, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual character control method and apparatus, device, storage medium, and program product" was invented by Hao Gao (Shenzhen, China), Lin Lin (Shenzhen, China), Shanshan Qian (Shenzhen, China) and Haohui Liang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual character control method performed by a computer device. The method includes: displaying a virtual scene, the virtual scene comprising at least one virtual character; in response to receiving a target operation on a target region in the virtual scene, displaying a station control in t...