ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,884, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for controlling plurality of devices" was invented by Jongchan Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jihoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device transmits a target mode entry notification of the electronic device to a target device, so that each of the target device and the electronic device may execute an application corresponding to the target mode. Also, the electronic device transmits a target mode release notification of the electronic device...