US Patent Issued to FMR on May 27 for "Systems and methods for detection and extraction of borderless checkbox tables" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,280, issued on May 27, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).

"Systems and methods for detection and extraction of borderless checkbox tables" was invented by Mohamed Mahdi Alouane (Toronto), Shyam Subramanian (Norwood, Mass.) and Hui Su (West Roxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for extracting borderless checkbox tables from electronic documents. A server detects checkboxes in a textual electronic document. The server extracts text blocks from the textual electronic document. The server identifies table headers corresponding to a borderless checkbox table in the textual electronic documen...