ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,913, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Display device and display device control method" was invented by Kihyun Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwanyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsup Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sukhoon Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wonjae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jongkeun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device comprises a display unit, a communication unit and a processor, which identifies, based on an IR signal received through the communication unit, whether there is a pairing history of a remote controller and t...