ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,936, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for accessing service using authentication of electronic device" was invented by Jieun Keum (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Oleksandr Andrieiev (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of accessing a service by using authentication of an electronic device. An operation method of the electronic device includes: selecting a cloud server for storing data, based on first authentication information including an identifier of the electronic device and network addresses of a plurality of cloud servers;...