ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,443, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Electronic device for placing object according to space in augmented reality and operation method of electronic device" was invented by Hyunjun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minseoung Woo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyunghwa Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanghyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device according to various embodiments may include a display, a sensor configured to detect a distance from an actual item in a space, a camera configured to capture an image...