ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,551, issued on March 4, was assigned to DWANGO Co. LTD. (Japan).

"System, method, and program for specifying character-string-based comment art" was invented by Emiko Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A comment art management system according to one embodiment displays a target comment art including a character string of a plurality of lines on a plurality of viewer terminals including a target person terminal. The comment art management system includes: a receiving unit (communication unit) configured to receive specifying information for specifying the target comment art from the target person terminal; a specifying uni...