ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,327, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Utterance class-based interface and experience generation" was invented by Akshay Tandon (Seattle), Haley Martin (Austin, Texas), Vaijan M. Hundlekar (Sammamish, Wash.), Avinash Hanumanthappa (Bellevue, Wash.), Marielle Paule Sanna (Seattle), Hakem Mohamed Zaied (London), Rajesh Prabhu (Mill Creek, Wash.), Rajat K. Jaggi (Bothell, Wash.), Lyuliang Liu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Sayali Nakashe (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for processing and responding to utterances in different ways depending upon the intent and content ...