ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,455, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method, apparatus and device for processing instant message" was invented by Yan Jiang (Beijing) and Yonghao Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method for processing an instant message. For any instant message in any conversation, in response to a first operation triggered for a target message in a first conversation, the target message link corresponding to the target message is obtained. After obtaining the target message link, in response to a second operation triggered by the user in the ta...