US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on July 8 for "Virtual object control method and apparatus, terminal, storage medium, and program product" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,590, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual object control method and apparatus, terminal, storage medium, and program product" was invented by Liangfei Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a virtual object control method performed by a terminal, a storage medium, and a program product. The method includes: displaying a game picture of a side-scrolling game, the game picture comprising a first virtual object and one or more movement paths for the first virtual object to move in the side-scrolling game; in response to a use operation on a virt...