ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,997, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for processing audio data obtained via microphone and audio data received via external device into single audio stream" was invented by Hyunil An (Suwon-si, South Korea), Shinhyuck Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongmoon Ok (Suwon-si, South Korea), Injune Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minjung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes: at least one microphone; a main processing circuit; and an audio processing circuit, wherein the main processing circuit is configured to: obtain...