ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,585, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method of authenticating device through infrared transmission" was invented by Minju Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sukun Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device including a memory storing instructions; and a processor that executes the instructions to perform a process including: identifying a registered device through a scan, after identifying the registered device, connecting with the registered device based on identification information of the regi...