ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,879, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for controlling same" was invented by Yehoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chanwon Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sojung Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junik Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for controlling an electronic device includes detecting at least one user and acquiring user information of the detected at least one user; determining a user mode based on the acquired user information; determining a service to be provided to the detected at least one user, by inputt...