ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,798, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Evaluation of speech processing components" was invented by Shubham Srivastav (Natick, Mass.), James J Logan (Southborough, Mass.), Siyong Liang (Menlo Park, Calif.), Arjun R Athreya (Fairfield, Conn.), Parag Kurlawala (Bedford, Mass.) and Michael K Leung (Stoneham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for evaluating speech processing components are described. A system may receive a task request including at least a plurality of entity names to be evaluated by at least one speech processing component. The system may determine synthetic user inputs c...