US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 20 for "Methods and electronic device for providing interaction with virtual assistant" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,060, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods and electronic device for providing interaction with virtual assistant" was invented by Manjunath Belgod Lokanath (Bengaluru, India), Sourabh Tiwari (Bengaluru, India) and Vinay Vasanth Patage (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing an interaction with a virtual assistant, includes identifying, by an electronic device, at least one of a duration of a silence between a first portion of an utterance received from a user and a second portion of the utterance, and a position of the silence in the utteranc...