ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,097, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and control method thereof" was invented by Junbum Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jihoon Park (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 communication interface, a memory for storing at least one instruction and storing a plurality of pieces of transaction information and a plurality of index values corresponding to the plurality of pieces of transaction information, and at least one processor configured to control the electronic device by bein...