ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,701, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for determining object indicated by voice command" was invented by Hyeoncheon Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taegu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gajin Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hoseon Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaeyung Yeo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eunkyung Lee (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 memory storing one or more computer programs, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory, wherein the one or more comput...