ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,879, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Natural language understanding systems" was invented by Mohamed Soliman (Aachen, Germany), Abdalghani Abujabal (Aachen, Germany) and Vinh Thinh Ho (Saarbruecken, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for identifying functionalities (i.e., user experiences) that are requested by users but are not supported by natural understanding (NU) processing. Some embodiments may involve identifying functionalities by transforming user inputs to functionality-based representations. The functionality-based representations may be grouped into indi...