ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,664, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for messenger service and apparatus therefor" was invented by Jongseong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hwanyeol Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Kiman Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dohyeong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for providing a closed messenger service to a second authority-level user includes receiving, from a first terminal, a first identity of a first authority-level user who invited the second authority-level user, a second identity of the second authority-level user, and information identifying a wo...