ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,304, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Communication apparatus having monitoring function for coupling state of connector and method of controlling the same" was invented by Hanyeop Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jisang Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinchul Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changho Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Gun Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus having a monitoring function for a coupling state of a connector and/or a method of controlling the communication apparatus are provid...