ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,213, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Three-dimensional virtual object interaction method and apparatus, display device, and storage medium" was invented by Mingtien Lin (Shenzhen, China), Wenjie Wu (Shenzhen, China), Jingzhou Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Weibiao Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses an interaction method performed by a computer device. A three-dimensional virtual object is obtained; an optical signal of the virtual object is transmitted to a first side of an optical panel and then projected from the first side into a second side ...