ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,883, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Multi-assistant natural language input processing" was invented by Munir Mahmood (Bellevue, Wash.), Leopold Bushkin (Renton, Wash.), Alexander Thomas Loeb (Lynnwood, Wash.), Michael Schwartz (Seattle), Mohammed Arif (Bellevue, Wash.), Rongzhou Shen (Bothell, Wash.), Vikram Kumar Gundeti (Bellevue, Wash.), Shemyla Anwar (Bothell, Wash.), Yaser Khan (Kirkland, Wash.), Edward Page Foyle (Seattle) and Bo Li (Kenmore, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a natural language processing (NLP) system to implement more than one assistant are described. ...