ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,397, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (China).

"Communication method and apparatus based on avatar interaction interface, and computer device" was invented by Xiaolong Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Xiaorui Huang (Shenzhen, China), Yuan Fang (Shenzhen, China), Bing Li (Shenzhen, China), Jianqiu Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Huai Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Min Tan (Shenzhen, China), Yuteng Zhong (Shenzhen, China), Yuan Lai (Shenzhen, China), Xuan Ye (Shenzhen, China), Ye Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Kui Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Ziqiang Peng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application rel...