US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Aug. 19 for "Layout-aware multimodal pretraining for multimodal document understanding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,768, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Layout-aware multimodal pretraining for multimodal document understanding" was invented by Mingyang Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Cheng Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Tao Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Spurthi Amba Hombaiah (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Bendersky (Cupertino, Calif.), Marc Alexander Najork (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Te-Lin Wu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for document processing that can process and understand the layout, text size, text style, and multimedia of a document can generate more accurate and informed document...