ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,202, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Electronic device for timeout prevention and operation method thereof" was invented by Jin-Hee Ma (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyuho Son (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangyoon Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wonchul Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaigyun Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electronic device including a processor configured to receive a command requesting an operation for a plurality of group zones from a host, transmit a completion response to the command to the host, and perform a background oper...