ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,545, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for outputting audio and electronic device for the same" was invented by Ki-Man Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Mi-Sun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sang-Hun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyun-Joong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Mi-Ra Seo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Woo-Cheol Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Yong-Gu Lee (Guri-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communicating data by an electronic device is provided. The method includes transmitting a signal including audio/video (A/V) data to a first external electronic de...