ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,105, issued on April 21, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Live distribution for compiling action of viewer of video" was invented by Ko Kikuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compilation system (101) includes: a plurality of viewing terminals (104) with which a plurality of viewers respectively views a video; and a compilation server (105). Each terminal (104) of the viewing terminals, using at least one processor of one or more processors in the terminal (104), enables a viewer using the terminal (104) to view one of one or more contents associated with the video in advance while the video is being played in th...