ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,475, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Wearable electronic device and method of operating the same" was invented by Hyuncheol Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyoujoo Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongmin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hongji Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sunok Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes at least one first thermistor arranged in different heat generation positions in the wearable electronic device and configured to detect a temperature change of inter...