ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,787, issued on March 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual item processing method and apparatus, electronic device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product" was invented by Jieqi Xie (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a virtual item processing method performed by an electronic device. The method includes: displaying a virtual scene, the virtual scene comprising an entry to a first virtual item list associated with a first virtual object; displaying the first virtual item list in the virtual scene in response to a trigger operation on th...