ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,800, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Wearable device for adjusting light transmittance according to illuminance of external light source, and method for controlling same" was invented by Kyusik Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungnyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongil Son (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongmin Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungjoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Gisoo Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device configured to adjust light transmittance according to illuminance of an external light source and a method for controlling ...