ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,893, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device for recognizing sound and method thereof" was invented by Jubum Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hosang Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeaseul Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeonghoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example sound recognition method may include sampling input sound based on a preset sampling rate; performing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the sampled input sound based on at least one of random FFT numbers or random hop lengths, and generating a two-dimensional (2D) feature map w...