ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,330, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method of providing connection switching for wireless audio device" was invented by Hyeonjeong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a processor and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to obtain information of a wireless audio device wirelessly connectable to the electronic device, determine whether an utterance of a user is a device-controlling utterance for a target device which ...