ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,063, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Speech-processing system" was invented by Timothy Whalin (Seattle), Catherine Michelle Loo (Los Angeles) and Calvin Phuong Nguyen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include first and second speech-processing systems. The first speech-processing system may process received audio data and determine that a command represented therein is associated with a second speech-processing system. The first speech-processing system may send command data to the second speech-processing system and receive response data in return. The first speech-processin...