ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,797, issued on June 24, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).
"Natural language processing" was invented by Kiana Hajebi (Seattle), Vivek Yadav (Issaquah, Wash.) and Pradeep Natarajan (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are generally described for inference reduction in natural language processing using semantic similarity-based caching. In various examples, first automatic speech recognition (ASR) data representing a first natural language input may be determined. A cache may be searched using the first ASR data. A first skill associated with the first ASR data may be determined from the cach...