ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,781, issued on June 30, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device for displaying directional icons for prompting task" was invented by Luxin Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including displaying a virtual game scene in which a target virtual character in a virtual game is located in a display interface and in which target locations in the virtual game are set, determining relative position relationships between a character position of the target virtual character and target locations, and displaying, in a task prompting area a...