US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Oct. 27 for "Virtual prop control method and apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and electronic device" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,628, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual prop control method and apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and electronic device" was invented by Zhihong Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual prop control method includes: displaying a crosshair of a virtual shooting prop in a game scene of a virtual shooting game; detecting whether an aiming ray of the virtual shooting prop is in contact with adhesion boxes of other virtual operation objects in response to an input operation of the target virtual operation object, the aiming ray representing a direction...