ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,906, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Brightleaf Solutions Inc. (Brookline, Mass.).

"System and a method for determining hierarchical relationship in batches of documents" was invented by Samir Bhatia (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining hierarchical relationship in batches of documents is disclosed. A data collection module receives one or more batches structured and unstructured documents. A metadata configuration module defines the plurality of metadata fields, enabling structured metadata extraction. The metadata extraction module identifies and extracts metadata attributes using an artifici...