ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,209, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Natural language processing" was invented by Chenlei Guo (Redmond, Wash.), Xing Fan (Redmond, Wash.), Bharath Bhimanaik Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.), Kerry Hammil (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Dinesh Malla (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Puyang Xu (Issaquah, Wash.) and Sixing Lu (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating tasks to be completed in order to perform an action responsive to a user input and, for a given task, shortlisting available components to those that are relevant for the task are described. The system processes a user input ...