ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,862, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hyperconnect LLC (Dallas).

"Method of generating response using utterance and apparatus therefor" was invented by Enkhbayar Erdenee (Seoul, South Korea), Beom Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Bum Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seok Jun Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Yong Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Bu Ru Chang (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Ju Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques to generate imitative responses are illustrated. response generation method performed in an electronic apparatus of the present disclosure includes acquiring at least one piece of utte...