ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,094, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Home appliance, and method for outputting information about home appliance" was invented by Jaechan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongwon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaegeun Son (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, for outputting information related to a second home appliance. The method includes: obtaining group information for grouping the first home appliance and the second home appliance by assigning the first home appliance as an assistant device and assigning the second home appliance as an actually used...