ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,641, issued on July 29, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Methods and apparatus for natural language understanding in conversational systems using machine learning processes" was invented by Deepa Mohan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to apparatus and methods for natural language understanding in conversational systems using machine learning processes. In some examples, a computing device receives a request that identifies textual data. The computing device applies a natural language model to the textual data to generate first embeddings. In some examples, the natural l...