ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,318, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for managing IoT devices in a metaverse environment" was invented by Karthikeyan Subramani (Bangalore, India) and Gokul Govindaraj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing one or more Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a metaverse environment is provided. The method includes detecting that a user is engaged in the metaverse environment, monitoring, upon detecting that the user is engaged in the metaverse environment, an operating state of each of the one or more IoT devices in a re...