ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,390, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Online somatosensory dance competition method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Shichen Zhao (Shanghai), Weijia Li (Shanghai), Chaoran Li (Shanghai), Peng Wang (Shanghai) and Zhihui Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides techniques of implementing online somatosensory dance competitions. The techniques comprise assigning a room to one or more players in response to receiving one or more requests of starting a game, wherein all players in a same room share a same dance video; out...