ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,123, issued on March 18, was assigned to ALIBABA (CHINA) Co. LTD. (Binjiang District Hangzhou, China).

"Behavior control method and apparatus for virtual live streaming character" was invented by Xinxing Zu (Hangzhou, China), Long Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Zhongzhou Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Ji Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Zhiyong Xiao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to a behavior control method and apparatus for a virtual live streaming character. In an embodiment, a method comprises: acquiring viewer behavior data of a live streaming service, and determining atmosphere data of the live ...