ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,801, issued on April 8, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).
"Emoji management for electronic messaging" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Krishnan Raghavan (Bangalore, India) and Hariprasad Shanbhogue Alampady (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method provides techniques for emoji management for electronic messaging. The message includes detecting, by a processor of an electronic device, selection of an emoji for sending within a message. A recipient is identified for the message. The method further includes determining one or more attributes that can be associated with the emoji, and...