ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,582, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Conversation support device, conversation support system, conversation support method, and storage medium" was invented by Kazuhiro Nakadai (Wako, Japan), Masayuki Takigahira (Wako, Japan), Naoaki Sumida (Wako, Japan), Masaki Nakatsuka (Wako, Japan), Kazuya Maura (Oita, Japan), Kyosuke Hineno (Oita, Japan) and Takehito Shimizu (Oita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a conversation support device, a first voice recognition unit performs voice recognition processing on the basis of a voice signal and defines partial section text information for each partial s...