US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on July 21 for "Translation device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,362, issued on July 21, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Translation device" was invented by Atsuki Sawayama (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A translation device includes: a determination unit that determines a translation range for translating a first chunk to be translated; a translation unit that translates the translation range; and an output unit that outputs a translation result by the translation unit. The determination unit adds, to the translation range, the first chunk and a second chunk that includes a verb corresponding to a word included in the first chunk and that is closer to a be...