ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,307, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Electronic device for protecting personal information and operation method thereof" was invented by Jongmin Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hoang Duc Bui (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kang Guen Shin (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Junbum Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example electronic device for protecting personal information for protecting a user's personal information may include a communicator, an output unit, a memory storing one or more instructions, and a ...