ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,248, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device of launching an application in background" was invented by Sripurna Mutalik (Bengaluru, India), Manith Shetty (Bengaluru, India), Anuradha Kanukotla (Bengaluru, India), Kwanjin Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wonseo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing application launching in an electronic device is provided. The method includes identifying a plurality of user interaction parameters and a plurality of hardware parameters of the electronic device, identifying, based on the plu...