ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,196, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof" was invented by Minsang Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changhun Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seokhyun Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Taehwa Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus including a communication interface; and a processor configured to obtain a first signal in an enhanced audio return channel (eARC) format based on a predetermined parameter, control the communication interface to transmit the obtained first signal to an external speaker...