ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,045, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DWANGO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Display medium, processing apparatus, program, and computer-readable recording medium provided with program recorded thereon" was invented by Kaisei Sakurai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display medium includes a base material that has a three-dimensional shape, and a partition P that is provided on a surface of the base material and has a surface that radially divides a space on the surface of the base material for each of a plurality of directions. A portion that is exposed when observing the display medium from a predetermined direction among the plurali...