US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on April 15 for "Virtual object control method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,942, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual object control method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Jiacheng Wei (Shenzhen, China), Xun Hu (Shenzhen, China), Shandong Su (Shenzhen, China), Kang Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Yulin Wan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual object control method includes: controlling a first virtual object to move toward a target position in response to detecting a triggering operation on a first skill; while the first skill is in effect, detecting a triggering operation on a second skill; in response...