ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,135, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Processing natural language queries for network-based services" was invented by Sopan Khosla (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rashmi Gangadharaiah (San Jose, Calif.), Deepak Seetharam Nadig (San Jose, Calif.), James W. Horsley (Carnation, Wash.), Abhijit S Barde (Cupertino, Calif.), Brijesh Luckria (Fayetteville, N.C.), Fawad Abbas (Bellevue, Wash.), Bhaskar Hosahalli Rangaswamy (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael W Miller (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a natural ...