ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,786, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for displaying aiming mark" was invented by Zijian Qiao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for displaying an aiming mark. The method may include displaying a level interface. The level interface displays a master virtual character and at least two candidate virtual characters in a virtual environment. A candidate virtual character represents a virtual character to being aimed at by an aiming mark. The aiming mark is for marking an aimed target of the mas...