ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,140, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Load testing platform for voice assistant-enabled technologies" was invented by Puneeth Simha Kadaba Sathya Kumar (Pleasanton, Calif.), Saso Crnugelj-Gale (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Chenyuan Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shilpi Nair (San Ramon, Calif.), Diyu Zhu (Milpitas, Calif.) and Arwin Submaraniam (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing emulation software used to emulate voice assistant-enabled devices, and further for a platform used to perform and monitor large scale load tests against fleets of voice assist...