ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,083, issued on July 29.

"Machine learning based extraction of partition objects from electronic documents" was invented by Dan G. Tecuci (Austin, Texas), Ravi Kiran Reddy Palla (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad (Los Altos, Calif.), Vincent Poon (Millbrae, Calif.), Nigel Paul Duffy (San Francisco) and Joseph Nipko (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object-extraction method includes generating multiple partition objects based on an electronic document, and receiving a first user selection of a data element via a user interface of a compute device. In response to the first user selection, and using a machine ...