ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,657, issued on May 27.
"Techniques for modifying markings on a digitized document" was invented by Manbinder Pal Singh (Coral Springs, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques performed by a computing device are provided. A method includes (a) locating, by the computing device, a portion of a digital image that depicts fields of a paper form, the fields including markings; (b) identifying, by the computing device, a marking within one of the fields of the paper form as being contrary to a set of rules; and (c) modifying, by the computing device, the digital image to remove the identified marking from the digital image, so that ...