ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,418, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for controlling same" was invented by Keehwan Ka (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongyoub Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyoungchoon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minjin Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeongwon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a cooking apparatus including an image capturer for obtaining an image of food located in the cooking apparatus, a memory, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to cause the cooking apparatus to: obtain an image through the im...