ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,080, issued on April 14, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Augmented reality language translation method and system using a situation-word database" was invented by Min kyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sanghun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Yun (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeonguk Bang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Namhyeong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an automatic interpretation method and system for converting only voice of a speaker into a target language. The present invention may significantly improve performance...