Granted & published
U.S. 11,587,561 B2. Fully disclosed, examined, dated and enforceable. Discussed openly on this site and available in full from the USPTO.
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Examined and granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The full specification is a matter of public record and can be retrieved from the USPTO or any patent database.
Quoted from the published specification. The complete claim set governs; this abstract is descriptive only.
In plain language:
When a person speaks, the message carries emotional and prosodic information alongside its words. Conventional translation captures the words and discards the rest. The patented method identifies that emotional content during translation, represents it as structured data bound to the specific words and phrases that produced it, and carries it across the language boundary with the message, so that a recipient receives not only what was said, but the manner in which it was said.
The specification further contemplates representations that carry adjusted vocal delivery and culturally appropriate manner into the target language, including holographic presentation of the speaker.
One thing worth stating plainly: this was not a paper filing. Real-time translation with sentiment analysis had been engineered and was running in the company's platform before the application was filed in October 2019, with the sentiment work sourced directly from research laboratories at a point when emotion metadata existed for only a small number of languages. The claims describe a method that had already been reduced to practice.
Ownership of U.S. 11,587,561 B2 remains with Mary Lee Weir, the named inventor. It has not been assigned to RealComm Global LLC at any point.
Inventorship follows conception. It does not follow funding, and it does not follow execution. The design claimed in this patent was conceived by Mary Lee Weir. Partners contributed engineering capacity and language resources under agreement, and the sentiment work was sourced from research laboratories, but the architecture was hers. The patent issued in her name for that reason.
RealComm Global operates under an exclusive research and development license. The company may conduct research and develop technology under the invention; it does not own it. The separation is intentional and has been maintained since grant.
The patent is not a one-off arrangement. It is the standing structure. Ownership of the intellectual property sits with Mary Lee Weir personally, not with RealComm Global and not with any company contracted to build. RealComm Global directs the research and will publish it. Engineering is contracted as work for hire under written agreements that settle ownership in advance. Direction, execution and ownership are deliberately held in three different places, and each boundary is written down.
The practical consequence is that the invention has never been exposed to the company's operating history, including the 2025 abandonment of the legacy platform development asset and the removal of the vendor liabilities attached to it. The intellectual property came through that restructuring untouched, because it was never inside it.
Any counterparty evaluating a licensing or collaboration arrangement should understand that they are dealing with two related but distinct positions: the inventor's ownership, and the company's license.
A granted patent trades disclosure for protection: everything inside the claims is published, and everything published is defended. Work that has not been filed is protected the other way: by not being published at all.
U.S. 11,587,561 B2. Fully disclosed, examined, dated and enforceable. Discussed openly on this site and available in full from the USPTO.
Implementation methods, architecture, corpora, lexicon construction, filter design and evaluation results developed since 2019. Documented internally, disclosed only under executed agreement.
Subject matter under active research that may become the basis of further applications. Not described publicly, in any degree of detail, prior to filing.
Licensing, sublicensing, research collaboration and diligence requests are directed to the founder and inventor.