ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,501, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device for protecting content by using biometric information and operating method thereof" was invented by Andriy Oliynyk (Kyiv, Ukraine), Dmytro Progonov (Kyiv, Ukraine), Pavlo Kolesnichenko (Kyiv, Ukraine), Valentyna Cherniakova (Kyiv, Ukraine), Yevhenii Yakishyn (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Yaroslav Lavrenyuk (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a device for protecting content by using biometric information is provided. The content protection method includes displaying, by the device, identification information of enc...