ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,369, issued on May 20, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"On-device artificial intelligence systems and methods for document auto-rotation" was invented by Christopher Dale Lund (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auto-rotation module having a single-layer neural network on a user device can convert a document image to a monochrome image having black and white pixels and segment the monochrome image into bounding boxes, each bounding box defining a connected segment of black pixels in the monochrome image. The auto-rotation module can determine textual snippets from the bounding boxes and prepare them int...