ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,246, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Keyword determinations from conversational data" was invented by Kiran K. Edara (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Topics of potential interest to a user, useful for purposes such as targeted advertising and product recommendations, can be extracted from voice content produced by a user. A computing device can capture voice content, such as when a user speaks into or near the device. One or more sniffer algorithms or processes can attempt to identify trigger words in the voice content, which can indicate a level of interest of the user. For ea...