US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on May 20 for "Virtual object control method and apparatus, terminal, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,781, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual object control method and apparatus, terminal, and storage medium" was invented by Jiacheng Wei (Shenzhen, China), Xun Hu (Shenzhen, China) and Shandong Su (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual object control method is described. A skill type of a skill is obtained in response to a first click/tap operation on a skill control. In response to determining that the obtained skill type of the skill is a target skill that supports selecting a casting position based on a screen click/tap, a castable region of the sk...