ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,556, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Avex Technologies Inc. (Tokyo).

"Content distribution system, content distribution method, and program" was invented by Yutaka Kino (Tokyo) and Kosuke Ota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content distribution system comprising: a content distributing unit that distributes a content; a gift receiving unit that receives a request of a gift of which multiple types exist from a viewer when distributing the content; a gift providing unit that executes a process for providing the gift from the viewer; and a reward unit that gives a reward to the viewer, when the viewer provided a plurality o...