ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,992, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Device configuration by natural language processing system" was invented by Hersh Sridhar Iyer (Redmond, Wash.), Willy Lew Yuk Vong (Seattle), Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy (Bothell, Wash.), Gregg Taylor Lehman (Seattle) and Ramesh Kamasamodram (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for device control by a natural language processing system are disclosed. A user may desire to utilize a voice-enabled device to associate an accessory device with a hub device without having to utilize third-party software associated with the accessory dev...