US Patent Issued to Lilt on April 15 for "End-to-end neural word alignment process of suggesting formatting in machine translations" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,402, issued on April 15, was assigned to Lilt Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"End-to-end neural word alignment process of suggesting formatting in machine translations" was invented by Thomas Joachim Zenkel (Bamberg, Germany), Joern Wuebker (Berlin) and John Sturdy DeNero (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, the disclosure provides a programmed computer system implemented via client-server Software as a Service (SaaS) techniques that allows for machine translation of digital content. When translating digital content, linguists must translate more than just the text on the page. Formatting, for example, is a c...