ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,859, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Yahoo Assets LLC (New York).

"System and method for generating video in target language" was invented by Paloma de Juan (Newy York, N.Y.), Alex J. Shaw (New York), Eric M. Dodds (Berkeley, Calif.), Benjamin J. Culpepper (Berkeley, Calif.), Kapil Raj Thadani (New York), Lakshmi V. Kesiraju (San Jose, Calif.), Praveen Mareedu (Jersey City, N.J.), Sanika Shirwadkar (Milpitas, Calif.), Xingyue Zhou (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yueh-Ning Ku (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating a video in a target language are provided....