ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,127, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Speech processing dialog management" was invented by Lambert Leo Mathias (Seattle), Bala Murali Krishna Ummaneni (Bellevue, Wash.), Ryan Scott Aldrich (Seattle), Diamond Bishop (Seattle), Ruhi Sarikaya (Redmond, Wash.) and Chetan Nagaraj Naik (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing user utterances and/or text based queries that tracks entities and other context data of a current dialog between the system and the user and can fill slots for new intents of the dialog by performing statistical processing on previously mentioned e...