ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,178, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for keyword spotting in noisy environments" was invented by Chou-Chang Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Yashas Malur Saidutta (Menlo Park, Calif.), Rakshith Sharma Srinivasa (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ching-Hua Lee (Mountain View, Calif.), Yilin Shen (San Jose, Calif.) and Hongxia Jin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an audio input and generating a noisy time-frequency representation based on the audio input. The method also includes providing the noisy time-frequency representation to a noise...