ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,458, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Ultratec Inc. (Madison, Wis.).

"Semiautomated relay method and apparatus" was invented by Robert M. Engelke (Madison, Wis.), Kevin R. Colwell (Middleton, Wis.) and Christopher R. Engelke (Verona, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A captioning method for presenting captions to an assisted user (AU) during communication with a hearing user (HU) where the assisted user uses a captioned device and the hearing user uses a hearing user's device to facilitate the communication, the captioned device including a display screen and a speaker for presenting captions and broadcasting the hearing user's v...