ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,330, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Customized machine translation using client-specified attributes" was invented by Maria Nadejde (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Anna Currey (New York City, N.Y.), Georgiana Dinu (New York), William Jew Wong (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Margo Helena Lynch (Pittsburgh), Tatyana Badeka (Fremont, Calif.), Jenyuan Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Shuoren Fu (Seattle), Aakash Upadhyay (Seattle), Eric J. Nowell (Kirkland, Wash.), Prajwal Gadad (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Advait Bhatwadekar (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A respective label set is obtained for a number of translation...