ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,374, issued on June 3, was assigned to KAKAO CORP. (Jeju-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), Tae Jun Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Dae Nyeon Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for a messaging service are provided. An operating method of a terminal on which an application for a messaging service is installed includes switching an input mode o...