ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,621, issued on July 1, was assigned to KOEI TECMO GAMES Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Voice user interface processing method and recording medium" was invented by Yusuke Ishihara (Yokohama, Japan) and Hitoshi Kadota (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice user interface processing method executed by an information processing device, the voice user interface processing method includes determining whether a first portion of words set in advance is uttered by a player, executing a first process that corresponds to the words before the words are uttered to an end of the words in a case that it is determined that the first p...