ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,985, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Machine translation systems utilizing context data" was invented by North Jude Overby (Tacoma, Wash.), Nazifa Nawar Chowdhury (Seattle), Franklin Munoz Garcia (Kirkland, Wash.), Vikas Raunak (Bellevue, Wash.), Vishal Chandulal Chowdhary (Sammamish, Wash.), Tyler Stratton (Redmond, Wash.), Jiarui Guo (Sammamish, Wash.) and Alexander Joseph Neshyba (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for utilizing contextual data in generating machine translations. The method includes receiving a translation request including an initial pro...