ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,364, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and vehicle driver authentication method by the electronic device" was invented by Byungwook Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunsik Ki (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sanghoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Woong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electronic device including: a first authentication module configured to determine whether a driver corresponds to a valid user of a vehicle, according to an artificial intelligence (AI)-based authentication process, a control module configured to se...