ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,430, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Reno, Nev.).
"Verbally interactive materials handling facility" was invented by Ohil Krishnamurthy Manyam (Bellevue, Wash.) and Rohit Prasad (Acton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and techniques configured to acquire data from user speech generated by one user of a materials handling facility speaking to themselves or another user. The user speech is processed using natural language processing to determine key words, concepts, meanings, and so forth. Based on the processed data, queries may be executed, data may be presented in user interf...