ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,402, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for command fulfillment without wake word" was invented by Sivakumar Balasubramanian (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gowtham Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivasa Rao Ponakala (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vijendra Raj Apsingekar (San Jose, Calif.) and Anil Sunder Yadav (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises obtaining an audio input. The method also includes providing at least a portion of the audio input to a frame-level detector model. The method also includes obtaining a first output of the frame-level detecto...