ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,084, issued on April 14, was assigned to Saltlux Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method, apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium for controlling response utterance being reproduced and predicting user intention" was invented by Kyung Il Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jong Won Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a response utterance being reproduced and predicting a user intention includes: a voice signal analysis step of, when a second voice signal is received from a user while a first response utterance for responding to a first voice signal is output, starting analysis on the sec...