ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,227, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for controlling battery charging" was invented by Jongmin Yoon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seungnyun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jeongwon Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Chunsik Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a housing, a first interface, a second interface, a battery, a charger circuitry, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may determine information on a charging type of the external power supply connected through the ...