US Patent Issued to Bank of America on July 29 for "Automated categorization and processing of document images of varying degrees of quality" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,136, issued on July 29, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Automated categorization and processing of document images of varying degrees of quality" was invented by Aftab Khan (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a dictionary and a machine learning algorithm trained to classify text. The processor receives an image of a page, converts the image into a set of text, and identifies a plurality of tokens within the text. Each token includes one or more contiguous characters that are both preceded and followed by whitespace within the tex...