ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,794, issued on April 15, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for searching for chat information and electronic device" was invented by Mingzhi Shen (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for searching for chat information and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: receiving a first input performed by a user; and displaying N identifiers in response to the first input, where each identifier indicates at least one piece of chat information of an information type associated with a target chat object, and chat information indicated by the N identifiers is chat in...