US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on June 9 for "Natural language interfaces" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,597, issued on June 9, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Natural language interfaces" was invented by Jonathan Samuel Yedidia (Cambridge, Mass.), Daniel Schmidt (Somerville, Mass.), Cristobal Alessandri (Boston), Reuben Harry Cohn-Gordon (Cambridge, Mass.), Ilker Bayram (Brookline, Mass.), Ravi Kiran Raman (Cambridge, Mass.), Nicholas Eastman Moran (Cambridge, Mass.), Atulya Yellepeddi (Medford, Mass.), Milutin Pajovic (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sunrita Poddar (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is not trivial to implement speech and natural language processing in offline embedded systems. Voice...