ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,686, issued on July 22, was assigned to INDENT CORP. Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for identifying messenger counterpart in order to provide personalized service" was invented by Tae Seok Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Gyun Ho Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Se Hyeon Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying a counterpart of a messenger. An example method includes receiving an action signal of a user from the outside by a communication unit. User information related to the user is read from a database. An initial message and a response message including an identification...