ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,923, issued on March 17, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Privacy protection method and apparatus for social network, electronic device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product" was invented by Fen He (Shenzhen, China) and Yaxin Yong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A privacy protection method performed by an electronic device includes displaying, in response to a configuration operation with respect to an information sharing permission for a social network, a configuration result of the information sharing permission, and displaying target information in response ...