ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,001, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device capable of providing power to external device" was invented by Kyunghwan Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Yeongil Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a battery; an interface module; a detection module electrically connected with the interface module, the detection module configured to detect than an external electronic device for receiving power is connected to the interface module; a protection module electrically connected with t...