ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,731, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Position prompt method and apparatus for virtual object, terminal, and storage medium" was invented by Jianfeng Lian (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a position prompt method and apparatus for virtual objects. The method includes displaying a virtual environment map and an object identifier corresponding to a first virtual object, the first virtual object and the controlled virtual object belonging to different camps; and in response to a drag operation on the object identifier onto the ...