ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,162, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Explanation of system determination" was invented by Zheng Chen (Seattle), Chen Tong (Seattle), Xing Fan (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Alan Frey (Washington), Daniel Grace (Seattle), Jie Hao (Bellevue, Wash.), Ziyan Jiang (Seattle), Chenlei Guo (Redmond, Wash.), Aram Galstyan (Los Angeles), Yang Liu (Los Altos, Calif.) and Pradeep Natarajan (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating and outputting a natural language explanation of a determination made by a system are described. The system presents content to a user, where the content is ge...