ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,893, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Full media translator" was invented by Daniel Ajagbusi (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for translating a document. A number of processor units separate the document into elements having media types. The number of processor units determine attributes for the elements. The number of processor units create a virtual map identifying relationships between the elements using the attributes. The number of processor units translate the elements into a target language based on media types for the ...