ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,803, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for identifying user's real hand wearable device therefor" was invented by Bonkon Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaewoo Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of identifying a hand of a genuine user wearing a wearable device. According to an embodiment, the method includes using a sensor included in the wearable device to recognize a hand located in a detection area of the sensor; estimating a position of a shoulder connected to the recognized hand based on a positional relation between the orie...