ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,338, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BLOCKCHAIN LABS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for providing secret messenger function through end-to-end encryption on basis of blockchain did technology" was invented by Yong Tae Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Byung Wan Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure related to a client device including a communication interface configured to communicate with an agency server and a counterpart device, a memory, and a processor. The processor may transmit a topic creation request to the agency server, when a topic creation notification is r...