ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,101, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Open Text SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"Systems and methods for multilingual metadata" was invented by Srikanth Raghavan (Ashburn, Va.), Richard Guildford Hellier Jr. (Calawba, Va.), Kathy DiBella (Milford, N.H.), Michael Scott (Washington Grove, Md.) and Andrew Chillrud (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content management system provides a mechanism for representing a particular piece of metadata in multiple languages. The multilingual metadata system provides a user with an ability to visualize a single translation in a language of the user's preference or based on the use...