ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,016, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic apparatus for translating voice input using neural network models and method for controlling thereof" was invented by Beomseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sathish Indurthi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Mohd Abbas Zaidi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Nikhil Kumar (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus, including a microphone; a memory configured to store at least one instruction; and a processor configured to: acquire a first token corresponding to a first user voice input in a first language acquired...