ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,763, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device for performing neighbor awareness networking communication and method of operating the same" was invented by Buseop Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sunkee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a communication circuit; and a processor operatively connected to the communication circuit, wherein the processor may be configured to perform synchronization with neighbor awareness networking (NAN) based on NAN cluster information included in a signal broadcast by an external e...