ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,540, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electronic device for performing authentication on basis of cloud server and control method therefor" was invented by Jin Seong Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electronic device that operates based on a cloud server including a biometric sensor, a database that stores identification information on at least one of the biometric sensor, a user, and the electronic device and biometric information registered by the biometric sensor, and at least one processor, wherein the processor receives an authentication request o...