ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,023, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Conversation support device, conversation support system, conversation support method, and storage medium" was invented by Naoaki Sumida (Saitama, Japan), Masaki Nakatsuka (Saitama, Japan), Kazuhiro Nakadai (Saitama, Japan), Yuichi Yoshida (Saitama, Japan), Takashi Yamauchi (Saitama, Japan), Kazuya Maura (Oita, Japan), Kyosuke Hineno (Oita, Japan) and Syozo Yokoo (Oita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice recognition part performs voice recognition on a voice data and generates an utterance text which is a text indicating an utterance content. A display pr...