ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,983, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Data swapping method and electronic device supporting same" was invented by Chulmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ohoon Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunjoon Cha (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaewon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sooyong Suk (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yongtaek Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes: a plurality of swap devices; a memory storing instructions and data to swap; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: based on attributes of the data to swap stored in...