ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,881, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for providing augmented reality" was invented by Yeonhee Rho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wonkyu Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) device supporting AR is provided. The AR includes a memory in which data about at least one augmented reality element mapped to an AR space is stored, at least one sensor, a display, and a processor, wherein the memory may store instructions to allow the processor, upon execution, to provide, to a user screen through the display, au...