ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,077, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to LINE Plus Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method, computing device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium to translate audio of video into sign language through avatar" was invented by Yunji Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sign language translation method performed by at least one processor includes setting a sign language translation avatar in a video call, translating speech of at least one speaker into sign language during the video call, and displaying the sign language through the sign language translation avatar during the video call."

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