ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,889, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Natural language generation" was invented by Xiaohu Liu (Bellevue, Wash.), Chenlei Guo (Redmond, Wash.), Bharath Bhimanaik Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.), Wei Shen (Kirkland, Wash.), Yu Zhang (Sammamish, Wash.) and Ruhi Sarikaya (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using a model to generate a response to a user input, where the response is associated with a personality determined to be relevant to the user input, are described. The system receives a user input and context data associated with the user input. Using the user input data and...