ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,705, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Natural language selection of objects in image data" was invented by Ahmet Emre Barut (Boston), Chengwei Su (Belmont, Mass.), Weitong Ruan (Revere, Mass.) and Wael Hamza (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are generally described for selection of objects in image data using natural language input. In various examples, first image data representing at least a first object and first natural language data may be received. In some examples, first embedding data representing the first natural language data may be generate...