ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,340, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to COLOPL Inc. (Tokyo).

"Storage medium, method, and information processing apparatus" was invented by Naruatsu Baba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first part, a video in a virtual space where a plurality of types of objects including a character object which moves is arranged is displayed based on first data common among a plurality of computers. In a second part, a video including the character object is displayed based on second data. The second data is data including information for causing the character object to speak for a speech which is transmitted from outside to any one or m...