ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,140, issued on June 30, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Control profile managing method and apparatus" was invented by Yong Joon Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example, to manage a control profile, it is possible to receive a control profile from a first electronic device of at least one seller, store the control profile, and transmit a target control profile selected by a target user from among a plurality of stored control profiles to a second electronic device of the target user."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1, 2022, under Application No. 18/031,112.

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