ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,805, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NAVER WEBTOON LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for rearranging webcomic content and device therefor" was invented by Choong Hyun Seo (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jae Hyuk Chang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sung Kil Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Moon Soo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Soon Hyeon Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rearranging webtoon content includes obtaining first content including a plurality of image cuts including a plurality of elements, extracting...