ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,780, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Live interactive method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Danxiong Lei (Shenzhen, China), Qiang Lu (Shenzhen, China), Pengju Chen (Shenzhen, China), Jiangwei Qiu (Shenzhen, China), Nan Zhan (Shenzhen, China), Ye Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Ting Yang (Shenzhen, China), Hong Qu (Shenzhen, China), Ziyang Ma (Shenzhen, China), Tao Liao (Shenzhen, China), Jie Xiong (Shenzhen, China) and Weizhou Jiang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A live broadcast interactive method is performed by a computer device. The method in...