ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,012, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Message display method and apparatus and electronic device" was invented by Jie Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message display method includes receiving a first input of a user for a first label of a first group and a first contact in a first contact list, the first label being used to indicate a real-time chat message belonging to a first chat topic; displaying a chat interface of a second group in response to the first input, the second group being a group created according to the first contact and the first label; an...