ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,656, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for connecting mobile terminal and external display and apparatus implementing the same" was invented by Doyoun Kang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sungjin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gwanglim Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sangjin Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea), Boram Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Soochan Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for controlling desktop virtualization function, per-display device window layout provision function, and user input-based external display device...