ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,912, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Electronic device supporting multi-EDID read operation and operating method" was invented by Teck Sheng Ng (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seongin Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bongchan Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyeongsu Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method for an electronic device that communicates with a source device through a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI), includes determining whether the source device supports a multi-extended display identification data (EDID) read operation through a displ...