ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,254, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, storage medium, information processing system, and control method for information processing system" was invented by Eishi Takeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus for displaying content received from a server apparatus includes a transmission unit that transmits, to the server apparatus, information indicating a first monetary value of a thing and a second monetary value of a thing to be provided to a streamer of the content, in response to an oper...