US Patent Issued to Ancestry.com Operations on March 11 for "Machine-learning based automated document integration into genealogical trees" (Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,451, issued on March 11, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Machine-learning based automated document integration into genealogical trees" was invented by Jack Reese (Lindon, Utah), Luca Lugini (San Mateo, Calif.), Yingrui Yang (San Mateo, Calif.), Simon Chu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Gopalkrishna Balkrishna Veni (Lehi, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for importing documents are described. An input image is received and preprocessed. OCR and/or page segmentation and chapter detection are performed. Special-case processing is performed for lists, tables, free text, and other categorie...