ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,967, issued on May 5, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Content delivery apparatus, content delivery method, and content delivery program" was invented by Jiro Uzaki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content acquisition unit extracts a divided block having an evaluation value equal to or more than a threshold value from among content in which each of divided blocks is associated with an evaluation value and is managed by a content asset management apparatus, and acquires the extracted divided block as delivery data. When a user pays a usage fee to receive the delivery of the extracted divided block, a...