ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,950, issued on June 17, was assigned to LY Corp. (Tokyo) and NAVER Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for providing search service in association with chatroom of messenger application" was invented by Grace Minjoo Chung (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Bohye Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Maria Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jae Gwang Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Ji Yong Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computer system, a server, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for providing a search service are provided. The method of providing the search service...