ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,673, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device for synchronization in D2D communication environment and method therefor" was invented by Hyoungkwon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sanggyu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minseok Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuit, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the communication circuit and the memory, wherein the processor may be configured to detect an event for transmission of a synchronization signal in...