ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,665, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Configurable interactive components for structured query results" was invented by Keith Gargano (Culver City, Calif.), Ryan Barlow Dall (Culver City, Calif.), Stefan Joseph Wojciechowski (Winnetka, Calif.), Joshua Anthony Marsh (Culver City, Calif.) and Andrew Jeremy Crews (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and processes providing meaningful responses to natural language (NL) prompts issued by a user and providing the responses to the user with configurable interactive components selected based in part on a role of the...