ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,672, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DILITRUST (Paris).

"Neural network and method for image processing, extraction and automatic information recombination" was invented by Raphael Chekroun (Neuilly sur Seine, France) and Eric De La Clergerie (Marly le Roi, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a neural network for semantic segmentation of a document with complex text. The network comprises a first multilayer neural encoding chain of an initial image file of the document to be processed, a second multilayer neural encoding chain of a mask image file of the document to be processed, a multilayer neural deco...