ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,427, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Configurable natural language output" was invented by Ramsey Abou-Zaki Opp (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Anantdeep Gill (San Jose, Calif.), Angela Liu (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Anisha Jain (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Justin Maxwell Bollag (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Nathan Yeazel (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Sara Renee Bilich (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Spencer B Baker (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for determining a natural language output, responsive to a user input, using different speech personality profiles. The system may de...