ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,079, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hangzhou AliCloud Feitian Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou City, China).

"Virtual live-streaming control method and apparatus" was invented by Yuxin Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Lin Rui (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present application provides a virtual live-streaming control method, where the virtual live-streaming control method includes: setting up a virtual character to perform a live-streaming of news information related to a theme activity in a live-streaming room; driving the virtual character to broadcast at least one piece of the news i...