ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,057, issued on May 13, was assigned to KAKAO CORP. (Jeju-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for managing user profile" was invented by So Yon Sung (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ji Sun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Bum Sun Ryu (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jee Won You (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ki Byung Chae (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Uh Chul Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Do Hyun Youn (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Young Min Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Eun Ho Son (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Min Jung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jin Hwan Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jun Young Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyun Ok Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hye Sun Kim (Seongna...