ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,805, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Natural language generation" was invented by Hann Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Angeliki Metallinou (Mountain View, Calif.), Melanie C B Gens (Honolulu), Arijit Biswas (Dublin, Calif.) and Ying Shi (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a prompt for a language model to determine an action responsive to a user input, are described. In some embodiments, the system receives a user input, determines one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) configured to perform actions that are relevant to the user input and exemplars ...