ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,744, issued on May 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multiple questions, multiple answers service" was invented by Peng Tang (La Verne, Calif.), Srikar Appalaraju (Martinez, Calif.), R. Manmatha (San Francisco), Yusheng Xie (Mountain View, Calif.) and Vijay Mahadevan (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for answering multiple questions with multiple answers are described. An example includes taking in a plurality of questions and a single context including at least one of text, encoded audio data, or encoded visual data, generating embeddings for at least one of the plurality of questions, the ...