ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,097, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"System command processing" was invented by Andres Felipe Borja Jaramillo (Shoreline, Wash.), David Robert Thomas (Woodinville, Wash.), Shrish Chandra Mishra (Seattle), Shijian Zheng (Issaquah, Wash.) and Alberto Milan Gutierrez (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for routing a user command to a speechlet and resolving conflicts between potential speechlets are described. A system determines an intent of an input command. The system also receives context information associated with the input command. The system determines speechlets (e...