ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,078, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual character display method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Siyuan Wang (Shenzhen, China), Teng Chen (Shenzhen, China), Guanjun Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Danlong Yao (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoyu Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Zhao Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a virtual character display method performed by a computer device and relates to the field of application programs supporting virtual worlds. The method includes: displaying a virtual world, the virtual world including at ...