ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,711, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AKAmedia Japan Inc. (Tokyo).

"Online learning system" was invented by Mairu Kikuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an online learning system that can guarantee that a student him/herself has attended a lecture provided and learned on-line, from start to finish. The online learning system 100 includes: a distribution control unit 15 that receives a distribution request from a student terminal 301 and distributes a lecture video stored in a lecture data storage unit; an authentication processing unit 14 which performs student face authentication during the reproduction of the...