US Patent Issued to KAKAO on April 29 for "Method and apparatus for providing counseling service" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,277, issued on April 29, was assigned to KAKAO CORP. (Jeju-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for providing counseling service" was invented by Ho Jun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Yu Mi Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sung Yong Chang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jung Han Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Bo Mi Hong (Seongnam-si, South Korea), June Kwon Moon (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Ji Soo Hwang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a counseling service. A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service include...