ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,522, issued on March 4, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Apparatus for processing user commands and operation method thereof" was invented by Duseok Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Suneung Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are provided in which one or more identifiers are registered based on a user setting made by a user of an electronic device. Each of the one or more identifiers corresponds to at least one activated service module. A registered identifier, of the one or more identifiers, is extracted from a user command input through an input device. The ...