ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,457, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to KAKAO CORP. (Jeju-si, South Korea).

"Application processing method for providing group video call" was invented by Hyung Jin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sung San Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyo Jin Ham (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Tae Kyu Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Young Wuk Seo (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Dae Nyeon Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Seog Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ji Ah Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Tae Jun Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Taek Hoon Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application processing method for providing a...