ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,702, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device for providing operation state information of household electrical device and method of operating the same" was invented by Dukkyun Na (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Taejun Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an electronic device for providing operation state information of a household electrical device without network function and a method of operating the electronic device. Provided is an electronic device receiving a first sound signal output from a household electrical device through a m...