ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,810, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Clothing management apparatus and method for controlling thereof" was invented by Jungmin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minjeong Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yoonhee Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing management apparatus may include a display and a processor to, based on a state of a garment in an image of the garment, determine a management necessity of the garment, based on the management necessity, determine a management completeness that is expected when the garment is managed according to a manageme...