US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Retrieval and edit-based machine translation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,589, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Retrieval and edit-based machine translation" was invented by Zhou Yu (Seattle), Yi Liu (Seattle), Simi Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Junnosuke Kuroda (Redmond, Wash.), Girish Subramanian (Redmond, Wash.) and Yonggang Deng (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are generally described for machine translation. In various examples, first text in a first spoken language may be received. A first candidate translation of the first text in a second spoken language may be determined based at least in part on the first text from among a c...