ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,632, issued on April 14, was assigned to DELTA PDS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Work chat room-based task management apparatus and method" was invented by Jae Ho Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seo Hyun Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for managing tasks based on a business chat room, includes a business chat room creation unit for creating a business chat room in response to a request for the creation of a chat room related to a project in the process of advancing the project; a message sharing unit for generating chat messages between work participants and work-related messages regarding the pr...