ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,516, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Kakao Entertainment Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method for highlighting lyric and user terminal for providing same" was invented by Hae Na Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ji Hoon Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Yu Jin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for highlighting lyrics of a sound source is disclosed. A method for highlighting lyrics according to the present invention includes the steps of: displaying, by a user terminal, lyrics of a sound source; receiving, by the user terminal, an input of a user's interaction to select part of the lyrics; displ...