ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,406, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device for providing augmented reality mode, and operating method therefor" was invented by Seunghwan Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a camera module, a processor operably connected to the camera module, and a memory operably connected to the processor, wherein the memory may store one or more instructions for allowing, during the execution thereof, the processor to identify a first interaction for a first application being executed, form a first application object for o...