ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,575, issued on July 22, was assigned to Shanghai Bilibili Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Image model file transmission" was invented by Wei Zhang (Shanghai), Jiangtao Hu (Shanghai) and Junhao Hu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides an image model file transmission method and computing device. The method includes: receiving an image model file of a first online streamer that is sent by a first client; obtaining a target key, and encrypting the image model file based on the target key to obtain an encrypted image model file; in response to determining that an interaction request for the first online stre...