ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,993, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Smart home automation using multi-modal contextual information" was invented by Andres Leonardo de Jesus Ortega Pena (San Jose, Calif.), Ashwin Chandra (Santa Clara, Calif.), Suk-Un Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and David Ho Suk Chung (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining one or more inputs at a first electronic device. The first electronic device includes a multi-task dynamic machine learning model that includes multiple sub-models configured to perform different machine learning functions. ...