ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,102, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method and apparatus for generating interactive video" was invented by Chaoran Li (Shanghai), Hao Wang (Shanghai), Zhicong Zang (Shanghai), Zhong Dong (Shanghai), Zhaozheng Wang (Shanghai), Yicong Mei (Shanghai) and Lin Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides techniques of generating interactive videos. The techniques comprise obtaining an original video, creating an interactive track for the original video to obtain an initial video, and adding an interactive component to the interactive track; and generating an...