ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,872, issued on June 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Water detection method and electronic device performing the same" was invented by Jinsu Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongjoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yusik Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kunpil Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Woonhyung Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a connector connected to a cable of an external device and including a plurality of pins, a water detection circuit connected to at least one detection pin among the plurality of pins, and configured to detect, based on ...