ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,173, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).
"Virtual gift display" was invented by Xian Lin (Shanghai), Yong Zhou (Shanghai) and Fan Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a virtual gift display method. The method includes: receiving virtual gift information, where the virtual gift information includes a given target virtual gift and a giving quantity of target virtual gifts; obtaining at least two gift pictures corresponding to the target virtual gift from a gift picture material library; splicing the at least two obtained gift pictures based on the giving...