US Patent Issued to NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK on Nov. 18 for "Method and apparatus for controlling role in multi-player competition game, and electronic device" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,434, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling role in multi-player competition game, and electronic device" was invented by Lanting Xu (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for controlling a role in a multi-player competition game, and an electronic device. The method includes: receiving a role control instruction from a first terminal device, and determining a target role corresponding to the role control instruction; determining a target role group to which the target role belongs, and a target terminal device ...