ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,089, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic apparatus performing speech recognition and method for controlling thereof" was invented by Saeyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongkook Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junghoe Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeontaek Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Boseok Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electronic apparatus which performs speech recognition. The apparatus includes: at least one sensor; a memory storing context data each corresponding to a plurality of commands; a microphone; and at least...