ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,086, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Ayako Mikami (Yamato, Japan), Takahiro Ishii (Yokohama, Japan), Tomoya Katsumata (Sagamihara, Japan), Akira Shouji (Kawasaki, Japan), Masatoshi Nojiri (Yokohama, Japan), Shigeki Tanabe (Yokohama, Japan) and Shinya Kosai (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a detector, a controller, and a communicator. The detector is configured to detect an object in proximity or contact. The controller is configured to ac...