US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Conversation-based skill component for assessing a user's state" (Washington, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,574, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Conversation-based skill component for assessing a user's state" was invented by Katherine M Ryan (Seattle), Avani Parakh (Seattle), Chao Wang (Newton, Mass.), Viktor Rozgic (Belmont, Mass.), Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda (Bothell, Wash.), Elizabeth Shriberg (Berkeley, Calif.) and Alexandros Potamianos (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides techniques for implementing a skill component, configured to perform an assessment of a user, as part of a speech processing system. The system may receive a natural languag...