ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,638, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatuses for creating team in virtual scene and joining team in virtual scene" was invented by Shuyuan Zheng (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for creating a team in the virtual scene. The method includes: presenting at least one virtual resource for selection in a team creation interface in response to a creation instruction for a target team in a virtual scene; determining, in response to a selection operation for a target virtual resource, the target...