ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,962, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Mobile device for performing power line communication and operating method thereof" was invented by Minkyu Kwon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Guntak Kwak (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device includes; a power line communication module that communicates data with an external device via a power line, receives a first preamble signal from the external device during a first preamble interval, receives a voltage signal as the data during a data reception interval following the first preamble interval, and demod...