ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,905, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Voice data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Jung Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Young Kwang Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Soo Hwan Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Wook Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Ho Cha (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Ho Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Hee Tae Yoon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting voice data is provided. The method may include receiving voice data of a particular speaker from a voice data collection server; determining whether destination terminals are first-type term...