ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,641, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Portable device for adaptive data communication control and method of operating the same" was invented by Jin Yup Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable device and a method of operating a portable device for performing adaptive data communication control are provided. The method includes determining the on or off state of a display unit, extracting data communication setting information including a fast dormancy policy according to the on or off state of the display unit, and controlling a data communication s...