US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on July 15 for "Emergency session translation and transcription via audio forking and machine learning" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,521, issued on July 15, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Emergency session translation and transcription via audio forking and machine learning" was invented by Hsin Fu Henry Chiang (Bellevue, Wash.), Yasmin Karimli (Kirkland, Wash.) and Syed Toaha Ahmad (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling real time translation and transcription services between users that have contacted emergency services and PSAP operators who are coordinating the emergency services are discussed herein. For example, a system determines that the user and the PSAP operator speak different language, are unable to...