ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,481, issued on April 29, was assigned to 17LIVE Japan Inc. (Tokyo).

"System, method and computer-readable medium for data search" was invented by Abid Saudagar (Tokyo), Hardik Taneja (Tokyo) and Hemanth Kumar Ajaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system, a method and a computer-readable medium for live streaming data search. The method includes receiving a search word, converting the search word into a search vector, receiving an attribute vector matching the search vector, and providing information of a first live streaming program corresponding to the attribute vector. The attribute vector v...