ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,890, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Voice-based interactions with a graphical user interface" was invented by Senthil Kumar Dayalan (Chennai, India), Manikandan Thangarathnam (Chennai, India), Sai Vinayak (Chennai, India) and Suraj Gopalakrishnan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for voice-based interactions are described. In an example, a device presents a user interface on a display. The device starts an operational mode of the device. The operational mode restricts voice-based interactions with the user interface to a set of commands. The set of commands is defined i...