ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,155, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Electronic device for controlling wireless communication connection and operating method thereof" was invented by Sangyoun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Choonghoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngil Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sinwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungjae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyuhui Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device configured to establish a first Bluetooth low energy (BLE) connection with an external electronic device, measure a distance between the external el...