ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,409, issued on June 24, was assigned to BEIJING WODONG TIANJUN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BEIJING JINGDONG CENTURY TRADING Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for sharing information" was invented by Yingshuai Wang (Beijing), Xiaoxia Li (Beijing) and Shiyu Miao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and apparatus for sharing information. A particular embodiment of the method comprises: in response to detecting that a user selects article information from a preset candidate item information set, adding the selected article information to a target article information set; detecting wheth...