US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Natural language interactions using visual understanding" (New York, Washington, Hawaii, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,200, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Natural language interactions using visual understanding" was invented by Ahmet Emre Barut (New York), Melanie C B Gens (Honolulu), Matthew Cavell Johnson (Maple Valley, Wash.), Prashan Wanigasekara (Arlington, Mass.), Chengwei Su (Lexington, Mass.), Kechin Qin (Medford, Mass.), Fan Yang (Waltham, Mass.) and Spurthideepika Sandiri (Holliston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing an action with respect to displayed content are described. A natural language interpretation corresponding to a received spoken user input may be determined. ...