ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,594, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Multimedia device and control method therefor" was invented by Dongyoung Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a multimedia device. The multimedia device includes: a display configured to display a user interface based on a pet care mode; and a controller configured to control the display. The controller is configured to: detect whether trigger conditions are satisfied, wherein the trigger conditions include selection by a user or absence of the user; and activate the pet care mode based on satisfaction of the trigg...