US Patent Issued to VOCALINK on Oct. 20 for "Apparatus, computer program and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,549, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to VOCALINK Ltd. (London).

"Apparatus, computer program and method" was invented by Julian Robert Mark Barnes (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Clifford Norman Russell (Surrey, Great Britain) and Erick Lopes Da Silva (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is described that comprises: communication circuitry configured to receive from a submitter, over a network, a data item being of a first data type and processing circuitry configured to: transform the first data type to a second, different, data type; remove non-significant content from the data item in the secon...