ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,590, issued on May 27, was assigned to KAKAO CORP. (Jeju-si, South Korea).
"Operating method of terminal and terminal" was invented by Su Hyeok Cha (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method of a terminal on which an application for an instant messaging service is installed includes receiving a selection of a user for an interfacing object displayed in a predetermined area of a chat window for the instant messaging service, switching, in response to the receiving, an input mode in the chat window to a mode for generating a timeline emoticon, generating the timeline emoticon in which a plurality of em...