ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,501, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Transliterated search method and electronic device supporting same" was invented by Jeongpyo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Namgyu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Balabhaskar Veerannagari (Karnataka, India), Hemant Tiwari (Karnataka, India), Mukund Rungta (Karnataka, India), Surendra Kumar Kanisetty (Karnataka, India), Vanraj Vala (Karnataka, India) and Jungmin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a processor and a memory to store a dictionary and index information. The memory can store inst...