US Patent Issued to KAKAO on June 24 for "Method and apparatus for communication system using user interfaces for instant messaging service associated with item transactions" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,364, issued on June 24, was assigned to KAKAO CORP. (Jeju-Si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for communication system using user interfaces for instant messaging service associated with item transactions" was invented by Sang Kyeong Lee (Seongnam-Si, South Korea), Seo Ji Lee (Seongnam-Si, South Korea), Lim Ah Lee (Seongnam-Si, South Korea), Yoon Sun Lee (Seongnam-Si, South Korea), Hyun Ji Oh (Seongnam-Si, South Korea) and Je Woo Song (Seongnam-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instant messaging service may be configured to receive transaction information and enable users to respond to those transactions through c...