ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,911, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Display device and control method therefor" was invented by Seunghyun Heo (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaekyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device comprises a network interface, a memory, a display unit, and a control unit. When speech is received while a content image is displayed through a content provider application, the control unit controls the network interface so as to transmit, to a content provider that provided the content provider application, request information corresponding to the speech."

The patent was ...