ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,282, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and electronic device to provide private information in response to screen expansion" was invented by Jongtae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongchae Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyungrae Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joayoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hoon Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example embodiment, an electronic device monitors an occurrence of private information from a connected external device and provides, in an expanded screen region, the private information of the external...