US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 23 for "Drift control assistance in virtual environment" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,182, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Drift control assistance in virtual environment" was invented by Xiongfei Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure includes an object control method and apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic apparatus. In the method, long-press operations on a first virtual key and a second virtual key in an interaction interface are detected. The target object is controlled to perform the target action in a current path in response to the long-press operations. A target angle of the target object ...