ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,280, issued on March 18, was assigned to GLOBAL HEALTHCARE EXCHANGE LLC (Lousiville, Colo.).

"Document classification" was invented by Eric Jon Bersagel (Fort Collins, Colo.), Sibi Mollykutty Luke (Kerala, India) and Alex Kallolickal Joseph (Tiruvallur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system provides the ability to understand the contextual values of an image-based document, regardless of the sender format. The system may analyze the contextual values associated with the different formats and classify the documents based on the contextual values and a business process. The system may provide filters that may be defined by t...