ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,252, issued on March 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Display method and apparatus for event livestreaming, device and storage medium" was invented by Zhiliang Zhen (Shenzhen, China) and Binbin Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display method includes: displaying a livestreaming image of an event live stream in a livestreaming interface, the event live stream being a stream of an event in which one or more virtual characters play in a virtual environment; displaying a playback control corresponding to a target segment in the livestreaming interface, the target segment being a his...