ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,257, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Interaction method and apparatus, and electronic device" was invented by Jiaxi Xiahou (Shanghai), Mao Li (Shanghai), Xin Zhang (Shanghai), Jingsheng Yang (Shanghai), Shun Huang (Hangzhou, China), Ziyun Qi (Shanghai), Zhenli Dai (Shanghai), Zhou Yu (Hangzhou, China) and Lingfeng Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are an interaction method and apparatus, and an electronic device. A specific implementation of the method comprises: receiving a multimedia data stream sent by a ...