ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,191, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Virtual assistant humor management" was invented by Anjali Yuan Narayan-Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jiao Sun (Los Angeles), Shereen Oraby (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alessandra Cervone (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tagyoung Chung (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Huang (Mountain View, Calif.), Yang Liu (Los Altos, Calif.), Nanyun Peng (Los Angeles), Arindam Mandal (Redwood City, Calif.) and Premkumar Natarajan (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one disclosed method, first data representing first text may be processed using a first machi...