ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,889, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for providing voice assistant service" was invented by Kyuyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, performed by an electronic device, of providing a voice assistant service may include: obtaining voice data including an input of a voice of a user; according to a performance level based on performance state information of the electronic device, identifying a processing path for obtaining a response corresponding to the voice of the user and processing a user interface (UI) corresponding to ...