ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,461, issued on July 28.

"Methods and systems for providing real-time online language services" was invented by Gabriel Carreon (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods, apparatus, and systems to facilitate the requesting and the providing of real-time interpretation and translation services, to enable a language service requester to request a real-time interpretation service or a real-time translation service on a user device, and to enable a language service provider to provide a real-time interpretation service or a real-time translation service on a service provider device."

The patent...