ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,596, issued on May 19, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Prop generation method, prop generation apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device" was invented by Ye Kuang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhixin Gui (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prop generation method includes: displaying a prop list of a target account in a display interface displaying a virtual game scene, the prop list including prop icons of props obtained by the target account; displaying a preview prop icon of a merge prop matched with the first prop in a preview state in response to a drag operation performed on a prop ico...