ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,246, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Speech reproduction control system, speech reproduction control method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with speech reproduction control program" was invented by Akihiro Nagata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech reproduction control system includes a speech reproducer that reproduces speech data in speech, a character reproducer that converts the speech data into characters for reproduction, and a hardware processor that reproduces first speech data and second speech data in parallel, wherein the hardware processor re...