US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on May 12 for "Method and apparatus for controlling virtual object, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,148, issued on May 12, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling virtual object, and storage medium" was invented by Zhihong Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for controlling a virtual object, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining an interactive operation in a virtual scene, the interactive operation being used for controlling a first virtual object to release a virtual prop at a target position; releasing the virtual prop at the target position, and displaying a target region triggered by the vir...