ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,877, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Identifying user content" was invented by Jose Alejandro Dario Santos (Seattle), Corinne Russell (Seattle), Nicholas Martin Peters Jr. (Seattle) and Catherine Michelle Loo (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for identifying user-specific content items and/or time-based content items, as well as techniques for providing the content items to the user. For instance, a remote system may receive first audio data from an electronic device, where the first audio data represents a request to identify content rel...