ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,379, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling virtual object, electronic device, storage medium, and program product" was invented by Shuai Wang (Shenzhen, China), Jianquan Li (Shenzhen, China), Xiaofeng Chen (Shenzhen, China), Qiwen Zheng (Shenzhen, China) and Guangxin Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a method for controlling a virtual object in a virtual scene performed by an electronic device. The method includes: presenting, in the virtual scene, a first virtual object and at least one second virtual object...