ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,457, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hyperconnect LLC (Dallas).

"Apparatus for providing recommended broadcasting information and method thereof" was invented by Young Soo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Gi Hoon Yeom (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for providing information by a recommendation server, the method including obtaining first information regarding a user and second information regarding broadcasts from a service server regarding broadcasts, receiving a request by the user for a recommended broadcast list from the service server, identifying, in response to the request, third informat...