ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,131, issued on March 18, was assigned to HYTTO PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"System and method for interactive web-browsing via user equipment" was invented by Dan Liu (Guangdong, China) and Jilin Qiu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for participating in a live broadcast via a viewer device includes running an application on the viewer device; using the running application to access a live broadcast that is being streamed by a streaming platform within an associated broadcast room; monitoring, by the running application, an operating instruction issued by a user of the viewer device; and controlling, by the runnin...