ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,378, issued on June 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating subset(s) of candidate languages for translation application(s)" was invented by Te I (San Jose, Calif.), Chris Kau (Los Altos, Calif.), Jeffrey Robert Pitman (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Qi Ge (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include initiating, at a client device, a translation application for translation of a dialog session between a first user speaking in a first language and a second user speaking in a second language. In many implementations, the first language, spoken by the first user, can be determined ...