ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,345, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Team formation appointment" was invented by Xinfeng Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes displaying a team formation appointment control associated with a first player in a virtual scene, the team formation appointment control is configured for making an appointment of forming a target team comprising the first player. The method further comprises receiving one or more team attribute setting operations when the team formation appointment control is triggered and determining a set of team attributes of the target tea...