US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on Nov. 4 for "Hit confirmation effects in long-range combat games" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,891, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Hit confirmation effects in long-range combat games" was invented by Yizhou Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prop special effect display method includes controlling a first virtual object in a virtual scene to launch a projectile associated with a virtual prop in response to receiving a launching operation for the virtual prop. The method further includes, in response to the projectile hitting a target object in the virtual scene, determining a scaling ratio of a special effect of the virtual prop based on a distance b...