ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,838, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SDL Ltd. (Maidenhead, Great Britain).

"Translation decision assistant" was invented by Matthew William McKnight Hardy (Sheffield, Great Britain) and Rares Ionut Vasilescu (Floresti, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing a translation decision assistant are provided. In an exemplary method, a document is processed to determine a job value and document insights. A machine learning aggregation process extracts resources including people, machine translation engines, terminology, and workflows. The machine learning aggregation process from prior training selects res...