US Patent Issued to NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK on Oct. 7 for "Pathfinding control method and device in game" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,146, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Pathfinding control method and device in game" was invented by Xiangqian Dang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pathfinding control method in a game, including: in response to a first touch operation acting on a movement control area, controlling a first virtual character to move in a game scene; when the first touch operation satisfies a trigger condition, providing at least one position identifier in a designated area of a graphical user interface, the position identifier corresponding to a position in the game scene; deter...