ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,878, issued on March 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Natural language processing and classification" was invented by Kay Rottmann (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for understanding classification by a machine learning model are described. A system determines a portion of a user input that causes a machine learning model to classify the user input to a particular classification. The system may generate output data according to the determined portion of the user input. In some cases, the system may generate, using the determined portion, output data explaining processing performed ...