ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,165, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LINE PLUS Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method and system for displaying sponsored content in user profile area" was invented by Yunji Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for displaying sponsored content in a profile area of a user displayed in a chat room in which the user is participating. The method may be executed by at least one processor of a user terminal. The method may include receiving a first input for selecting whether to display sponsored content on a profile area, displaying the sponsored content in the profile area based on the f...