ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,601, issued on June 9, was assigned to BIC Violex Single Member S.A. (Anoixi, Greece).

"Methods and systems for transforming speech into visual text" was invented by Nikolaos Chrysanthakopoulos (Anoixi, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for transforming speech into visual text, including obtaining a speech signal encoding a text of a speech; selecting a portion of the text at least based on a projection mode of a writing instrument; outputting the portion of the text towards a projector configured to project the portion of the text to a user of the writing instrument. The writing instrument may be use...