ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,472, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic apparatus for identifying content based on an object included in the content and control method thereof" was invented by Minsoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungjin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Younguk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiwoong Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunsoo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes a communicator circuitry, and a processor for obtaining multimedia data from an external apparatus via the communicator, iden...