ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,928, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and operation method for display control based on wheel manipulation" was invented by Minwoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwangsub Byun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungjin Son (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jooheon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junyoung Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junho Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunseok Cha (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a user interface in an electronic device may include: obtaining a wheel-based signal be...