ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,578, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Natural language processing" was invented by Ying Shi (Bellevue, Wash.), Joe Pemberton (Seattle), Mariusz Momotko (Tczew, Poland), Paul F. D. Ferraro (Seattle), Andrew Smith (Seattle) and Melanie C B Gens (Honolulu).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating an executable API call for an LLM-generated request, where the executable API call is usable to cause a component to generate a potential response to a user input, are described. In some embodiments, the system receives a user input and uses a language model to generate a request for a com...