ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,058, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device for using virtual input device and operation method in the electronic device" was invented by Daechan Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Haksoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chanmin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangwon Chae (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example electronic device which, by at least one processor, may obtain an image corresponding to a real drawing by the camera module, detect an outline of at least one object included in the image, obtain at least one virtual button corresponding to...