ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,078, issued on March 31, was assigned to Shanghai Bilibili Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Live video playback" was invented by Nanling Zheng (Shanghai) and Keqing Bao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a live video playback method. The live video playback method includes: generating a specified player when a user trigger operation is detected; obtaining a target live video file supported by the specified player, where the target live video file is obtained by performing format conversion on an initial live video file, and where the initial live video file is obtained from a content delivery server; ...