ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,548, issued on July 29, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for determining user's posture using acceleration sensor of wearable electronic device" was invented by Wonhee Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jaehyuk Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain embodiments, a wearable electronic device comprises: an accelerometer which outputs acceleration data for a movement of the wearable electronic device in real time; an output device which outputs audio or video data; and a processor electrically coupled to the accelerometer and th...