ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,929, issued on May 13, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Master device identifying address of slave device, electronic device including the same, and operating method of electronic device" was invented by Woong Sik Shin (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master device identifying the address of the slave device may, when identifying a slave device selected from a candidate group including a plurality of slave devices performing the same operation but having different addresses, store an address list including an address of each of a plurality of slave devices included in the candidate grou...