ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,927, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and control method therefor" was invented by Hongseok Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunghoon Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Minkeun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiyeon Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jaeyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an ultrasonic sensor, an electromagnetic wave sensor, a memory for storing at least one instruction, and a processor electronically connected to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to c...