ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,119, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for providing virtual space in which interaction with another entity is applied to entity" was invented by Jongwon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hanbeen Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soonsang Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Miyeoung Chung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example electronic device may include a memory storing computer-executable instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions by accessing the memory. The instructions may cause the processor to control the elec...