US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 13 for "Multi-modal interaction with intelligent assistants in voice command devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,236, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multi-modal interaction with intelligent assistants in voice command devices" was invented by Jeffrey C. Olson (Woodside, Calif.), Henry N. Holtzman (San Francisco), Jean-David Hsu (San Francisco) and Jeffrey A. Morgan (Napa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising detecting an activation of an intelligent assistant on an electronic device, waking up the intelligent assistant from a sleep mode in response to the activation, and determining an amount of vocabulary the intelligent assistant acts upon during a listening mode b...