US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 16 for "Multi-modal user inputs for phrase building" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,882, issued on June 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multi-modal user inputs for phrase building" was invented by Bofei Wang (San Jose, Calif.), David Mahmarian (Seattle), Diamond Elizabeth Welsh (Langley, Canada), Michael Khachatrian (Glendale, Calif.), Robert Norman Neville (Ashburn, Va.) and Juliana Veronica Tarpey (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating and providing phrases built using multi-modal inputs are described herein. These techniques may include generating one or more phrase trees for use in parsing options for user selections through multi-modal inputs to iteratively bu...