ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,921, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and devices for accessing a device operating system over an interconnect" was invented by Rajinikanth Pandurangan (Fremont, Calif.), Changho Choi (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sungwook Ryu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communicating with a device may include running, at a device, an operating system, communicating, using a first function of an interconnect, with the device, and communicating, using a second function of the interconnect, with the operating system. The operati...