ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,900, issued on March 31, was assigned to KAKAO CORP. (Jeju-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for messaging service" was invented by Seon Young Ahn (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hye Jung Roh (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Hyun Ji Im (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A messaging service method and apparatus are disclosed. A method of operating a terminal executing an instant messenger according to an embodiment is disclosed. The method may include obtaining information about a time zone of a sending target of a scheduled message. The method may include setting a sending time of the scheduled message based on...