US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 2 for "Electronic device for supporting connection with external device and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,179, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device for supporting connection with external device and operating method thereof" was invented by Sangju Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example embodiment, an electronic device includes: a universal serial bus (USB) power delivery integrated circuit (PDIC) configured to determine whether a first pin of a USB port of the electronic device is connected to a power delivery (PD) source; a charging circuitry configured to charge a battery of the electronic device with power supplied from...