ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,889, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Kaori Tsugii (Izumi, Japan).

"Social tipping management system" was invented by Takehiro Tsugii (Izumi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a tipping management system 10 for allowing viewers to give a tip to program performers of digital television broadcasting, data broadcasting content to be displayed on a television 2 when a digital television broadcasting program is displayed on the television 2 includes information for the viewer to give the tip. The social tipping management system 10 comprises a data broadcasting creation server for creating the data broadcasting content including i...