ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,680, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic apparatus and method for controlling thereof" was invented by Keonwook Jun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyoungchoon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinhyeong Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Guwon Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an electronic apparatus, includes: identifying whether an emergency context is occurred by obtaining a sound near the electronic apparatus; based on identifying that the emergency context is occurred, obtaining information relating to a location where a sound ...