ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,185, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual scene transformation method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Mingwei Zou (Shenzhen, China), Xu Wang (Shenzhen, China), Hengshun Zhan (Shenzhen, China), Guanlin Huang (Shenzhen, China), Qi Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Jingxuan Chen (Shenzhen, China), Ru Xiao (Shenzhen, China) and Zihan Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual scene transformation method includes: displaying a first virtual scene picture, the first virtual scene picture comprising a first scene model in a virtual scene, and the fi...