US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Document information extraction using visual question answering and document type specific adapters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,077, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Document information extraction using visual question answering and document type specific adapters" was invented by Peng Tang (La Verne, Calif.), Pengkai Zhu (Pasadena, Calif.), Yusheng Xie (Redwood City, Calif.), Bhavan Ashwinbhai Jasani (San Francisco), R. Manmatha (San Francisco) and Vijay Mahadevan (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Document type specific adapters of a document analysis system are used to provide for additional document types or document specialization when generating answers to user submitted questions targeting information incl...