ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,996, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Video call method and apparatus, and electronic device and storage medium" was invented by Yuxi Chen (Beijing) and Junqiang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a video call method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: displaying a video call page; in response to receiving a first trigger operation using a first target special effect, determining a first action object of the first target special effect; in response to determining that the first action object includes a target peer ...