US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 9 for "Determining and utilizing secondary language proficiency measure" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,570, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining and utilizing secondary language proficiency measure" was invented by David Kogan (Natick, Mass.), Wangqing Yuan (Wilmington, Mass.), Guanglei Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Vincent Lacey (Mountain View, Calif.), Wei Chen (Belmont, Mass.) and Shaun Post (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to determining a secondary language proficiency measure, for a user in a secondary language (i.e., a language other than a primary language specified for the user), where determining the secondary language proficiency measure is b...