US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on July 15 for "Virtual object control method and apparatus, terminal, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,916, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual object control method and apparatus, terminal, and storage medium" was invented by Shuai Jiang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual object control method includes: displaying a first virtual object located in a virtual environment (301); displaying one or more candidate object identifiers corresponding to one or more candidate virtual objects in the virtual environment in response to a moving operation on the first virtual object (302); and controlling, in response to a trigger operation on a target object identifier i...