US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 22 for "Providing game controls through graphical user interfaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,312, issued on April 22, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Providing game controls through graphical user interfaces" was invented by Taeyeon Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Stefan Haines (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for controlling virtual units in a virtual scene at a computing device. The method includes, in response to receiving a first user input, displaying, on a display device, a first user interface (UI) that includes a plurality of command elements, the plurality of command elements comprising a union set of virtual unit actions performable by each user controllabl...