ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,802, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Machine learning model updating" was invented by Anil K. Ramakrishna (Los Angeles), Rahul Gupta (Waltham, Mass.), Yuval Merhav (Cambridge, Mass.), Zefei Li (Cambridge, Mass.) and Heather Brooke Spetalnick (Scotch Plains, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for updating a machine learning (ML) model are described. A device or system may receive input data corresponding to a natural or non-natural language (e.g., gesture) input. Using a first ML model, the device or system may determine the input data corresponds to a data category of a plurality of...