ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,014, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KAKAO CORP. (Jeju-si, South Korea).
"Method, user terminal, and server for recommending emoticons based on user's emoticon preference information" was invented by Song Yoo (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ji Yeong Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyeon Seon Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jee Min Yang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Yang Kyun Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hye Gyeong Jang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyeon U Ji (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Heung Soo Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jin Sil Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jeong Min Yoon (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Hyo Joo Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* r...