ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,433, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VTOUCH Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for providing voice recognition trigger and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Seok Joong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a voice recognition trigger and a system therefor, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. The method for providing the voice recognition trigger includes: calculating a distance change between a device and an object on the basis of proximity information detected by the device; and determining whether or not the ...