ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,714, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and electronic device for translating speech signal" was invented by Ji-sang Yu (Seoul, South Korea), Sang-ha Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jong-youb Ryu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Yoon-jung Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Eun-kyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jae-won Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an electronic device for translating a speech signal between a first language and a second language with minimized translation delay by translating fewer than all words of the speech signal according to a ...