ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,825, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GREE Holdings Inc. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for streaming video data to viewing terminals" was invented by Yosuke Kanaya (Tokyo) and Kaoru Murakami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal comprises processing circuitry configured to control a display to display a character video including a first character object representing a stream user; transmit character information to a plurality of viewing user terminals to display the character video to a plurality of viewing users different from the stream user; control the display to display a screen for a game played by the stream user...