US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 18 for "Word selection for natural language interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,881, issued on March 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Word selection for natural language interface" was invented by Andrew Starr McCraw (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Sheena Yang (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Sampat Biswas (Irvine, Calif.), Ryan Summers (Tustin, Calif.) and Michael Sean McPhillips (Arcadia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for altering default language, in system outputs, with language included in system inputs are described. A system may determine a word(s) in user inputs, associated with a particular user identifier, correspond to but are not identical to a word(s) in system outputs. Th...