ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,563, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Electronic apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Hyungseon Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jooyoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungjae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongyoub Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongjun Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Miyoung Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electronic apparatus, reference information stored on a memory includes standard appliance ownership information describing owned home appliances of at least one standard household and standard monthly power consumptio...