ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,203, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and control method thereof" was invented by Youngho Han (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junmo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method of an electronic device includes receiving a voice signal including a wake-up word and an instruction word for activating a voice recognition function, performing first voice recognition by acquiring at least one first candidate text in each frame of a first plurality of predetermined frames for a first voice signal section corresponding to the wake-up word ...