ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,605, issued on June 24, was assigned to Docusign Inc. (San Francisco).

"Optical character recognition system with back propagation of an objective loss function" was invented by Taiwo Raphael Alabi (Berkeley, Calif.), Farzaneh Rajabi (Redwood City, Calif.), Ashwath Saran Mohan (San Ramon, Calif.), Devin Cabillo (Fairfield, Calif.), Jerome Levadoux (San Mateo, Calif.) and Nipun Dureja (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document management system performs optical character recognition (OCR) on a high resolution version of an image of a document, obtaining a first set of text representative of the text of the document. The docume...