ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,121, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Event broadcast natural language interface" was invented by Ziv Rader (Tel Aviv, Israel), Bar Segev (Petah Tikva, Israel), Yossi Biton (Rosh Haayin, Israel), Avi Avraham Ben-Cohen (Holon, Israel) and Matan Karklinsky (Zur Hadassa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application describes systems and methods for accepting a request in a natural language command to retrieve and presentation information regarding an event broadcast. The natural language command can be processed by a natural language processor to identify moment metadata, such as a moment ...