ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,264, issued on June 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Fuzzy-match augmented machine translation" was invented by Cuong Hoang (San Jose, Calif.), Prashant Mathur (New York), Marcello Federico (Trento, Tenn.) and Devendra Singh Sachan (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for use of use of fuzzy-match-based translation suggestions to augment machine translation of input sentences or other texts. A machine translation system may use a model trained to translate a source language input to a target language output based on pseudo-randomly selected translation suggestions in the ta...