ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,008, issued on May 13, was assigned to FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL Corp. (Santa Ana, Calif.).

"Sensitive pattern recognition of images, numbers and text" was invented by Arun Rangarajan (Irvine, Calif.), Zheqi Tan (Madison, Wis.) and Madhu Kolli (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations of the disclosure describe a method, comprising: obtaining, at a computing device, a document image file; generating, at the computing device, using a first trained model, a first prediction including a first location of a sensitive information pattern within the document image file that contains a sensitive element and an ident...