ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,470, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify functions for computational devices" was invented by Oscar P. Pinto (San Jose, Calif.) and William Martin (Roseville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include interacting with an interface for one or more computational devices, wherein the interacting is based on an identifier, and wherein the identifier comprises information that identifies a functionality of a computational device functions. The information may include a functionality identifier. The identifier may further include inform...