ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,752, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Processing natural language queries with API calls and API executions" was invented by Sopan Khosla (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rashmi Gangadharaiah (San Jose, Calif.), Deepak Seetharam Nadig (San Jose, Calif.), James W. Horsley (Carnation, Wash.) and Abhijit S Barde (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a natural language question answering service to provide answers to natural language questions regarding network-based services or computing domains. The natural l...