ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,946, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Mobile terminal" was invented by Seokjin Shim (Seoul, South Korea), Kiyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kaeun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile terminal can include a display; a wireless transceiver configured to perform wireless communication with a server or an external terminal; and a controller configured to in response to receiving a broadcast chatting related message from the external terminal or the server, display the broadcast chatting related message, and in response to receiving a selection of the broadcast chatti...