ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,679, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Application matching method and application matching device" was invented by Meng Wang (Guangzhou, China) and Xiaorong Liang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application matching method that includes: acquiring a plurality of icons comprising a first icon corresponding to a first application and a second icon corresponding to a second application, recognizing a text in at least one of the plurality of icons, determining a category of the text, determining a similarity between the first icon and the second icon based on a ...