ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,764, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for providing voice assistant service" was invented by Jaesick Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sungho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a voice assistant service includes receiving a first voice command from a user. The method includes determining, from among a plurality of candidate devices, a plurality of devices that the first voice command is to be transmitted. The method includes transmitting information related to the first voice command to the plurality of devices....