ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,208, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method of providing responses" was invented by Sungbin Jin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seolhee Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaeyung Yeo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes: a memory including instructions and a processor electrically connected to the memory and configured to execute the instructions. When the instructions are executed by the processor, the processor is configured to: receive a voice signal corresponding to an utterance; match the voice signal with at le...