US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on June 17 for "Prop control method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,069, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Prop control method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device" was invented by Jinhao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prop control includes acquiring a trigger operation performed on a target shooting prop in an activated state in a virtual battlefield scene. The attack range of the target shooting prop may cover a partial area in the virtual battlefield scene. In response to the trigger operation, a target object targeted by the target shooting prop is determined. Using the target shooting prop, a plurality of cont...