ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,332, issued on April 7, was assigned to APPOSTER INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for providing watch face using NFC tagging" was invented by Sung Hyun Kyung (Gimpo-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for providing a watch face using NFC tagging performed by at least one server includes obtaining watch face request information from a user terminal based on uniform resource locator (URL) information corresponding to a strap; and providing information about a watch face matching the strap based on the URL information to the user terminal. The URL information is obtained from a Near Fiel...