ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,816, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Integration of speech processing functionality with organization systems" was invented by Gonzalo Alvarez Barrio (Seattle), Shantanu Vikas Kurhekar (Redmond, Wash.), Bharath Bhimanaik Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.), Fred Torok (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Frederic J Deramat (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for integration of speech processing functionality with organization systems are disclosed. For example, a voice interface application may be created to enable a voice interface functionality for devices associated with an organization. ...