ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,261, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic apparatus and control method" was invented by Kiock Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changhun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sarfaraz Ahmed (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device including: a memory configured to store an address code; a communication interface configured to communicate with one or more node apparatuses among a plurality of node apparatuses by serial communication; and a processor configured to: obtain the address code and an address value corresponding to one node apparatus among th...