ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,815, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Electronic apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Kyunghwa Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeonghye Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method of an electronic apparatus includes identifying whether an external device is located within a reference radius of the electronic apparatus; based on the external device being located within the reference radius, obtaining distance information between the identified external device and the electronic apparatus; identifying a standby time based on the dis...