ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,183, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Remote control device and control method thereof" was invented by Dongwook Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byuksun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungseop Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control device configured to control an electronic device including: a plurality of input keys; a signal transmitter; and a processor configured to: identify a time interval between a first radio signal and a second radio signal based on a length of the first radio signal, and based on one of the plurality of input keys being ...