ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,926, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Distance-based gaming virtual prop obtaining method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device" was invented by Zhihong Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a virtual prop obtaining method performed by an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a shooting result of a shooting battle between first and second virtual characters during running of a shooting task, the first virtual character being controlled by a user of the electronic device and the second virtual character being a non-man...