ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,718, issued on July 8.

"Data processing terminals, icon badges, and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Jae kyu Lee (Siheung, South Korea), Youngtack Shim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae lark Jung (Goyang, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to various configurations or methods of displaying push information such as a number or a substance of push information which is received by an app implemented to a data processing terminal such as a smartphone. More particularly, this disclosure relates to various methods of creating and using (1) an unread content which a sender selects a user as a l...