ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,586, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Speech processing and multi-modal widgets" was invented by Nhat Vu Doan (Seattle), Nicholas Adam Cummings (Lynnwood, Wash.), Prashant Jayaram Thakare (Sammamish, Wash.), Jalaj Kumar (Seattle), Ganesh Prabu Ravi (Seattle), Chih-Shin Wang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Narenda Gyanchandani (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing speech processing using multi-modal widget information are described. A system may receive input data corresponding to a user input. The system may also receive widget context data corresponding to one or more...