ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,493, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Display device and operating method thereof" was invented by Taejoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaekyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Changmin Kwak (Seoul, South Korea), Yongtae Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sunki Min (Seoul, South Korea), Hyangjin Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yeongbin Byeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to assist a voice recognition function when voice recognition has failed, a display device may comprise a display, a user input interface configured to receive a command from a remote control device, and a control...