ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,822, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Bullet-screen comment display" was invented by Mengyuan Xiong (Shanghai), Shuai Shao (Shanghai) and Hanlin Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bullet-screen comment display method is provided. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-displayed bullet-screen comment; placing the to-be-displayed bullet-screen comment into a target bullet-screen comment track at a target bullet-screen comment layer when the to-be-displayed bullet-screen comment meets a preset placement condition, where the target bullet-screen comment layer is one of seve...