ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,043, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for displaying graphic object" was invented by Hyungrae Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bonheon Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongtae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yoomi Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hongjin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a display, a communicator that establishes a connection to at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device, and a processor configured to receive information on an event from the at least one IoT device in response to detecting the event...