ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,689, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data processing method and apparatus for virtual scene, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Lijun Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Yaoran Zhong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a method for processing data associated with a virtual scene. The method includes: receiving a save request for progress data of the virtual scene; the save request being generated in a process in which a target user performs a virtual scene operation on the virtual scene, and being used for requesting to save progress data ...