ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,638, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Electronic device and associated control method" was invented by Bixing Ye (Suzhou, China) and Zuohui Peng (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a control method of an electronic device, wherein the control method includes the steps of: generating a MAC frame; performing a specific encoding operation on a specific field of the MAC frame to generate a parity; using the parity to replace part of content of the specific field; and generating a packet according to the MAC frame for sending to another electronic dev...