US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Sept. 23 for "Controlling group movement of non-player character virtual objects" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,194, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).

"Controlling group movement of non-player character virtual objects" was invented by Fenlin Cai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual object control method includes displaying a virtual environment picture of a virtual environment including a first virtual object, and determining a leader virtual object from among at least two non-player character virtual objects in response to a determination that the first virtual object is within an attack range of the at least two non-player character virtual objects. A non-leader virtual...