US Patent Issued to Block on Nov. 18 for "User interface for contextual validation of recognized text" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,699, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"User interface for contextual validation of recognized text" was invented by Philip Parker (Chester, S.C.) and Patrick Fink (Matthews, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementing a user interface for contextual validation of recognized text is described. A server may receive image data representing a document, determine, based at least in part on the image data, a type of the document, recognize a text element included in a portion of the document, and determine a point in a data validation process that is associated with the type of the document and/or deter...