ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,876, issued on July 28, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Concierge device for providing artificial intelligence concierge service, and a control method for same device" was invented by Jonghoon Chae (Seoul, South Korea), Hyoungyoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Donghoon Yi (Seoul, South Korea) and Daeyeon Yi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A concierge device comprises: a camera for obtaining image information of an utterer located within a valid distance from the concierge device; a microphone for receiving speech information of the utterer; a speaker for outputting response information corres...