ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,900, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Control apparatus and operating method thereof" was invented by Wonjae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunkyu Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsup Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungil Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eunseok Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a control apparatus including a key input interface including a plurality of keys, a communication interface configured to communicate with an electronic device, a memory storing store one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the o...