ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,892, issued on April 7, was assigned to DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Machine translation system for entertainment and media" was invented by Erika Doggett (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating translated audio output based on media content are disclosed. Text is accessed corresponding to media content. One or more untranslated mouth shape indicia are determined based on the text. The text is parsed into one or more text chunks when one or more dubbing parameters are met. The parsed text is translated from a first spoken language to a second spoken language. One or more translated mouth s...