US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on May 26 for "Method and apparatus for controlling virtual object to mark virtual item and medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,580, issued on May 26, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling virtual object to mark virtual item and medium" was invented by Cong Tian (Shenzhen, China), Meng Qiu (Shenzhen, China), Jiaqi Pan (Shenzhen, China), Weijian Cui (Shenzhen, China) and Shuting Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a virtual object to mark a virtual item is provided. The method includes: displaying a virtual environment picture, the virtual environment picture including the virtual object and the virtual item in a virtual environment; controlling the virtual...