ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,145, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Controlling a virtual vehicle using auxiliary control function" was invented by Tao Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a virtual vehicle includes displaying, on a graphical user interface, a virtual vehicle in a virtual environment, and controlling the virtual vehicle to drive in the virtual environment in response to a control operation input into the graphical user interface. The method further includes determining whether movement of the virtual vehicle in the graphical user interface based on...