ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,132, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Speech processing architecture interfaces" was invented by Armen Shimoon (Las Vegas), Christopher Anthony Venezia (Dublin, Calif.), Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (Hunts Point, Wash.), Ying Shi (Bellevue, Wash.) and Luu Tran (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for input processing architecture interfaces include receiving first audio data representing a first voice command within a first input processing architecture. A first action domain associated with the first voice command may be determined by the first input processing architec...