ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,349, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method and device for identifying lost state of electronic device" was invented by Wonkyoung Jang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Doosuk Kang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sangchul Yun (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Gyujin Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jubyung Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Junwan Cho (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electronic device including a wireless communication circuit configured to support communication connections to one or multiple devices, at least one processor, and a memory which sto...