ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,546, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device comprising biometric authentication device, and method for operating same" was invented by Seonho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a biometric authentication device; a memory configured to store an application and one or more instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions to: receive an input for executing the application; based on receiving the input for executing the application, begin launching the application by loadin...