ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,652, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Natural language processing system" was invented by Xing Fan (Redmond, Wash.), Narendra Gyanchandani (Sammamish, Wash.), Puyang Xu (Issaquah, Wash.), Chenlei Guo (Redmond, Wash.), Shubham Katiyar (Bothell, Wash.), Gokhan Tur (Los Altos, Calif.) and Xinhong Zhang (Mercer Island, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for processing with respect to a user input as contextual information is available are described. A system generates a first task prediction using first context data that is available when a user input is received. The system generates a...