ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,596, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for providing information about IoT device available in user indoor area" was invented by Hyungdong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing information about an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device available in an indoor area, includes: identifying an object in a captured image of the indoor area; identifying a feature of the object based on the captured image, the feature being related to at least one operation method of the object or a configuration of the object; determining an IoT dev...