ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,645, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Natural language query processing" was invented by Hanbo Li (Seattle), Patrick Ng (Great Neck, N.Y.), Zhiguo Wang (Syosset, N.Y.), Rishav Chakravarti (White Plains, N.Y.), Stephen Michael Ash (Seattle), Bing Xiang (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) and Gregory David Adams (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for handling natural language query processing are described. In some examples, semantic meanings of words are determined during the natural language query processing. These semantic meanings are generated from metadata associated with the query and are...