ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,184, issued on March 25, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Translation device" was invented by Toshimitsu Nakamura (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Noritaka Okamoto (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Wataru Uchida (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Yoshinori Isoda (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A translation device includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of pieces of learning data, a normalized sentence learning unit configured to perform learning on the plurality of pieces of learning data by combining original text for learning and a corresponding normalized sentence for learning, a translated sentence learning u...