ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,555, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Electronic device and operation method thereof" was invented by Yoonju Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Juwhan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yoonjae Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device receives a voice input, and determines whether the voice input is matched with a natural language understanding (NLU) model for determining the presence or absence of a verb. The electronic device further identifies a display context object associated with the voice input based ...