ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,251, issued on March 11, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for displaying virtual item, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Han Gu (Shenzhen, China), Jianquan Li (Shenzhen, China), Tao Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Liangliang Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a method and apparatus for displaying a virtual item, an electronic device, and a storage medium, and belongs to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: displaying a virtual object in a virtual scene, the virtual object having a plurality o...