ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,822, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Mobile device and control method thereof" was invented by Young-ho Rhee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jae-hwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device is provided. The mobile device includes a display unit, a sensor configured to sense user's touch done on a surface of the display unit in a disabled state of the display unit, a storage unit configured to store preset gesture information, a controller configured to enable the display unit when a user's touch operation matched with the gesture information is s...