US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on June 24 for "Virtual prop control method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,237, issued on June 24, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual prop control method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Yang Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Lijie Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a virtual prop control method performed by a computer device, and a storage medium. In this application, a controlled virtual object is sheltered by equipping the controlled virtual object with a movable virtual shelter prop, so as to avoid the controlled virtual object being directly exposed in a virtual scene and being attacked by oth...