ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,894, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for simultaneously identifying intent and slots in voice assistant commands" was invented by Tapas Kanungo (Redmond, Wash.), Nehal A. Bengre (Cupertino, Calif.), Qingxiaoyang Zhu (Woodland, Calif.), Yurii Lozhnevsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stephen Michael Walsh (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dmitrii Siakov (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of simultaneously identifying intent and slots in a voice assistant command includes tokenizing, into a plurality of tokens, a c...