ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,273, issued on May 13, was assigned to NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Method and apparatus for game team formation, and electronic device and storage medium" was invented by Jiefu Wu (Zhejiang, China) and Zhijian Chen (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for game teaming in live streaming, and an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium, relating to the technical field of computers. The method comprises: receiving a game teaming request, the game teaming request comprising user information of multiple game participants, the multiple game participants comprisin...