ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,243, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for providing operating state of plurality of devices" was invented by Changbeom Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungtae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hoseon Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electronic device that may receive information corresponding to a user utterance from a first external electronic device, identify a second external electronic device to perform at least a part of an action corresponding to the user utterance, based on determining that the first exter...