ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,886, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for speaker verification for voice assistant" was invented by Myungjong Kim (Milpitas, Calif.), Taeyeon Ki (Milpitas, Calif.), Cindy Sushen Tseng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Srinivasa Rao Ponakala (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Vijendra Raj Apsingekar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining audio data and identifying an utterance of a wake word or phrase in the audio data. The method also includes generating an embedding vector based on the utterance from the audio data and accessing a set of previ...