ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,927, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ACTFORE (Reston, Va.).

"Template identification and matching for data analysis in large sets of documents" was invented by Ali Haidari (Ashburn, Va.), Sanskriti Shivhare (Washington) and Syeda Yumna Batool Zaidi (Triangle, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes accessing, by one or more processors, a plurality of documents stored in one or more databases; converting, by the one or more processors, each page of each document of the plurality of documents into a respective image that comprises a plurality of pixel key points and corresponding desc...