ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,180, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for performing speaker diarization based on language identification" was invented by Myungjong Kim (Milpitas, Calif.), Vijendra Raj Apsingekar (San Jose, Calif.), Divya Neelagiri (Dublin, Calif.) and Taeyeon Ki (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for processing speech data may include a processor configured to: separate speech signals from an input speech; identify a language of each of the speech signals that are separated from the input speech; extract speaker embeddings from the speech signa...