ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,642, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for line up contents of media equipment, and apparatus thereof" was invented by Jong-Seok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content arranging method and apparatus in a media equipment and recording medium that stores a program source associated with the method are provided. The content arranging method includes extracting time information associated with stored contents from meta data of each of the stored contents, classifying the stored contents based on the extracted time information and a time interval for...