ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,004, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Contextual and personalized real time content modification for language assistance" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Gray Franklin Cannon (Atlanta) and Raghuveer Prasad Nagar (Kota, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By analyzing a natural language content concurrently with a presentation of the natural language content, a first language of the natural language content is detected. By analyzing the natural language content concurrently with the presentation of the natural language content,...