ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,138, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Operation method of electronic device" was invented by Wondeuk Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woonki Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junhwan Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an operation method of an electronic device that stores a first setup value for a first function of an external device that stores setup backup data may include establishing a connection to the external device, receiving, in response to the establishing of the c...