ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,939, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method of generating a trigger word detection model, and an apparatus for the same" was invented by Sivakumar Balasubramanian (Mountain View, Calif.), Gowtham Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivasa Rao Ponakala (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anil Sunder Yadav (San Jose, Calif.) and Aditya Jajodia (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a trained trigger word detection model includes training an auxiliary model, based on an auxiliary task, to concentrate on one or more utterances and/or learn context of the one or more ut...