ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,059, issued on May 13, was assigned to KAKAO CORP. (Jeju-si, South Korea) and DK TECHIN CORP. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for messaging service" was invented by Eun Hye Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Han Wool Cha (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Seok Gyu Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sul Gi Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), In Hae Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Chang Hyuk One (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for a messaging service are disclosed. A method of operating a search server interlinked with a messaging service includes receiving an immediate sharing re...