ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,018, issued on April 15, was assigned to Shanghai Bilibili Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Bullet-screen comment processing" was invented by Zhenyu Su (Shanghai), Bei Haoyu Yao (Shanghai) and Yusheng Dong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bullet-screen comment processing method is provided. The method includes: receiving a first bullet-screen comment and a second bullet-screen comment; classifying the first bullet-screen comment into a first bullet-screen comment group and classifying the second bullet-screen comment into a second bullet-screen comment group based on bullet-screen comment content of the first bullet-screen c...