ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,727, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dwango Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Content generating device, content distribution system, content generating method, and content generating program" was invented by Takashi Kojima (Tokyo), Kazuhiko Kusano (Tokyo) and Hajime Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more embodiments, a content generating device is provided. The content generating device comprises a first generator, a second generator, and a first transmitter. The first generator generates low-bit-rate encoded data that is original data having been encoded to a low-bit-rate. The second generator generates machine-lea...