ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,668, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to 17LIVE Japan Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and server for interactions between a streamer and a user responsive to a gift" was invented by Yu-Shan Yang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yung-Chi Hsu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Sheng-Kai Hsu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Ching-Jan Wang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yun-An Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interaction is created between users and streamers even when the users give gifts to the streamers outside live-streams.Provided is a terminal of a user, which includes: one or more processors; and memory storing one or more computer programs configured t...