ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,140, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof" was invented by Dohyeong Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Okhee Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongyeong Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeongwon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communication interface with communication circuitry, a memory configured to store at least one instruction and a processor, and the processor is configured to receive a first audio recognized as a wake up word by an ext...