US Patent Issued to Sorenson IP Holdings on Aug. 11 for "Sign-language translation" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,931, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sorenson IP Holdings LLC (Salt Lake City).

"Sign-language translation" was invented by Abolfazl Zargari Khuzani (Campbell, Calif.), Naveen Kulkarni (Folsom, Calif.), Mariam Rahmani (Folsom, Calif.), Shashank Bujimalla Venkata Sesha (Portland, Ore.) and Abolfazl Ravanshad (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques to facilitate the translation of a sign language into another language are described herein. A modular architecture may be used in which the output of different classifiers may be used to produce intermediate representations, or final translations, of th...