ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,234, issued on July 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Image-based text translation and presentation" was invented by Sujith Gunjur Umapathy (Berlin), Nikhil Garg (Berlin), John Mark Hubenthal (Seattle), Jose Luis Baez (Fair Lawn, N.J.) and Pushpendu Ghosh (Vadodara, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for translation of text in an image, and presentation of a version of the image in which the translated text is displayed a manner consistent with the original image. Text segments are automatically translated from their original source language to a target language. In order to p...