ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,018, issued on July 29, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for displaying virtual character, device, and storage medium" was invented by Xiaochen Hu (Shenzhen, China) and Jiacheng Liang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying a virtual character includes: displaying the virtual character, a first character part on the virtual character including a first clothes component and a first body component that are associated with each other; obtaining a second clothes component in response to a clothes component replacement instruction, the first clothes compon...