ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,673, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device for managing controlled device and method of operating same" was invented by Jeonghyeon Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunjoong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyeongjun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jonghwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Moohyun Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chaeyoung Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kanghee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Gyubeom 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 a communication module and at least one processor...