ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,165, issued on July 14, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for processing image service" was invented by Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, performed by a digital device, for processing an image service according to the present document comprises the steps of: receiving image information; decoding a first image on the basis of the image information; processing the decoded first image to be displayed on a first area of a display screen; and processing a second image to be displayed on a seco...