ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,499, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Security data processing method and device" was invented by Hyeeun Jun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kisung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kiwon Song (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device are provided. The device includes a display, a memory and a processor operatively connected to the display or the memory, wherein the processor is configured to receive a request for updating security data in which security attributes are set in application data, identify the state of an additional file corresponding to the ...