ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,186, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for displaying picture in virtual scene, device, storage medium, and program product" was invented by Tao Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying a picture in a virtual scene is provided. In the method, the virtual scene of a virtual environment is displayed. The virtual scene includes a first virtual vehicle. A target virtual vehicle of at least one second virtual vehicle is determined based on a distance between the first virtual vehicle and each of the at least one second vi...