US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Processing complex utterances for natural language understanding" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,801, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Processing complex utterances for natural language understanding" was invented by Cengiz Erbas (Acton, Mass.), Thomas Kollar (San Jose, Calif.), Avnish Sikka (Acton, Mass.), Spyridon Matsoukas (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Simon Peter Reavely (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system capable of performing natural language understanding (NLU) on utterances including complex command structures such as sequential commands (e.g., multiple commands in a single utterance), conditional commands (e.g., commands that are only executed if a condition is satisfi...