ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,594, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Guide line display method and apparatus, device, and medium" was invented by Chao Han (Shenzhen, China) and Lei Feng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide line display method includes: obtaining a first guide line generated at an ith moment and a second guide line generated at an (i+1)th moment; pairing positioning points on the first guide line and the second guide line to obtain k matching point pairs; generating a transition guide line by concatenating k intermediate points of the k matching point pairs, the transition guide lin...