ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,001, issued on May 27, was assigned to LINE Plus Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for processing conference using avatar" was invented by Jungnam Gwock (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Geum Yong Yoo (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Snow Kwon (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Ohik Kwon (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium may storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to set a communication session for a conference in which a plurality of users participates through a server, transmit, to the server, an identifier of an avat...