ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,421, issued on April 7, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Event timeline system" was invented by Shyam Sunder Kumar (Seattle), Vandana Sathpathy (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Aparna Kakarparti (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are generally described for an event timeline system. In some examples, first prompt data including a first natural language input may be generated. An LLM may generate a first directive to send a first request to a first interface of a first computer-implemented system using the first prompt data. First result data may be received from the first computer-implem...