ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,622, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Skill casting method and apparatus of virtual object, device, and storage medium" was invented by Wei Li (Shenzhen, China), Yuning Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Hang Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skill casting method includes displaying a first virtual object in a virtual environment, the virtual environment further comprising a second virtual object, the first virtual object facing a first direction, and the second virtual object being located at a second direction of the first virtual object. The skill casting method also ...