ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,894, issued on June 2, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Speech translation processing apparatus" was invented by Hitoshi Akiyama (Otukuni-gun, Japan) and Ryuji Nishimura (Otukuni-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech translation processing apparatus including a speech inputter and a speech outputter operated in cooperation with a wearable speech input/output apparatus worn on a user, includes a translation speech acquirer acquiring translation speech in a user language or the other language that is translated and generated on the basis of a spoken speech in the user language or the other language input through...