ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,037, issued on April 29, was assigned to COOKPAD INC. (Tokyo).

"Recipe translation server and control method for recipe translation system" was invented by Shinya Ohtani (Tokyo), Masayuki Ioki (Tokyo), Akihisa Kaneko (Tokyo), Tomomichi Sumi (Tokyo) and Jun Harashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recipe translation server includes circuitry which acquires quantitative recipe information which is made by converting qualitative expressions in recipe information written in a first language into quantitative expressions of numerical values. The quantitative recipe information includes nodes and edges, each node representing infor...