ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,427, issued on June 17, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Executing applications in conjunction with other devices" was invented by Chang-Ryong Heo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hyun-Seok Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Ji-Hyun Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sung-Hyuk Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Myung-Gon Hong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and electronic device for executing application concurrently with other devices are provided. An address of an external electronic device and a location of an application is obtained. A connection is established with a...