ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,234, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Artificial intelligence-based appliance management device and appliance management method" was invented by Shinae Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jihyun Song (Seoul, South Korea), Hyosang Shin (Seoul, South Korea) and Wonjae Hyun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, an appliance management device includes a communication device configured to acquire symptom information of a first appliance from a user's terminal, a memory including a database for accumulatively storing log data of each of appliances matched with the ...