ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,239, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for providing notification" was invented by Jong-hyun Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Han-joo Chae (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic including a transceiver configured to receive, from at least one wearable device, information indicating whether the at least one wearable device is being worn; and a processor configured to determine whether the at least one wearable device that is being worn, based on the received information indicating whether the at least one wearable device is being worn...