ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,380, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of virtual characters, device, and storage medium" was invented by Yizhou Zhuang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhiyi Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a method for controlling a plurality of virtual characters in an application. The method includes: displaying a first user interface of the application, the first user interface comprising a plurality of virtual characters; receiving a first user selection operation of at least two of the plurality of virtual char...