ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,656, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Location determination method and electronic device for supporting same" was invented by Youngpo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taeyoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dukhyun Chang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeonggeon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyoungjoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chaeman Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a magnetic sensor and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to: collect path data based on first magnetic data related to movement o...