ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,944, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to 7299362 Canada Inc. (o/a Alexa Translations) (Toronto).

"System and method for rule-based language translation" was invented by Renxian Zhang (Markham, Canada), Hugo Baudchon (Montreal), Ethan Ding (Thornhill, Canada) and Syed Salman Ali (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are computer-implemented systems and methods for providing improved rule-based machine translation, including a memory having a plurality of text translations, each text translation comprising an input text element and an output text element; at a processor: generating a text translation cluster compr...