ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,413, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and control method thereof" was invented by Soyoon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungjun Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jonghyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hakjung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunkyung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sohyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Indong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes: a microphone; a communication interface including communication circuitry; a memory configured to store a first encoder co...