ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,419, issued on April 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Natural language processing apparatus and natural language processing method" was invented by Chang Woo Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a natural language processing apparatus and a natural language processing method that may determine whether a user's speech command is a compound sentence or a complex sentence based on an output of a natural language understanding module, and when the user's speech command is a compound sentence or a complex sentence, recur...