ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,274, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device for supporting device-to-device communication and method therefor" was invented by Hyoungkwon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Inhye Yeom (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungmin Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit, a memory for storing an EARFCN list, and a processor configured to identify whether the electronic device is in a designated mode, when the electronic device is in the designated mode, perform a scan sequ...