ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,902, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sign language generation and display" was invented by Elena Gribanova (Dublin, Calif.), Valentin Filippov (Maple, Canada), Pedro Jesus Garcia Chavez (Mexico City), Wei Yan (Oakland, Calif.) and David C. White Jr. (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, via one or more processors, video data and audio data associated with respective participants in a video session, determining, via the one or more processors, words spoken by a speaker participant in the video session based on the audio data, determining, via the o...