ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,868, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Information determining method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Da Pan (Shenzhen, China) and Zegao Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information determining method and apparatus are provided. The method may include determining an aiming position of a virtual firearm being within an aiming assistance range of a target object. The method may further include determining, in response to a sequence of consecutive target firing operations for the virtual firearm, an aiming assistance strength of the virtual...