ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,598, issued on June 9, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic switching between languages during virtual conferences" was invented by Awni Yusuf Hannun (Los Altos, Calif.) and Sebastian Stuker (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a computing device may access audio information comprising an audio stream from a client device, and a source-language. The computing device may provide an audio segment from the audio stream to a language identification process of the computing device comprising a machine learning model that is trained to identify a language of a plurality of la...