ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,017, issued on June 3, was assigned to BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for controlling virtual avatar, device, and storage medium" was invented by Yitong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a virtual avatar comprises: dividing a virtual avatar into a plurality of skeleton chains, wherein each of the plurality of skeleton chains comprises a plurality of skeleton points; acquiring state information of at least one control point and initial state information of at least one skeleton point, wherein the state information comprises location information and orientati...