ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,607, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Automated generation of audio segments from item data" was invented by Daniel Neil MacTiernan (Ocean City, N.J.), Ethan Patrick Fortner (Austin, Texas), Rohit Bhatia (San Carlos, Calif.) and Milton Christ Georges (Cranbury, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for automatically generating audio segments from item data. In one embodiment, an audio segment discussing an item offered by an entity via an electronic commerce system is automatically generated. The audio segment is generated based at least in part on data associated...