ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,337, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device to control an application based on predicted use of the application and operating method thereof" was invented by Youngsang Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehwan Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yuna Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyuncheol Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Namgwon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Euijin Je (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yewon Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method of an electronic device includes receiving a request to control of...