ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,588, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Conversation assisting apparatus, conversation assisting method, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Kazunori Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversation assisting method of the present invention is performed in a first space in order to transmit an acoustic signal between the first space and a second space, separated by an isolation object, by using the isolation object. In the conversation assisting method of the present invention, a sound to be transmitted to the second space is emitted from the first space side to the isol...