US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 8 for "System for information extraction from form-like documents" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,396, issued on July 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System for information extraction from form-like documents" was invented by Sandeep Tata (San Francisco), Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder (La Jolla, Calif.), Qi Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), James Bradley Wendt (San Francisco), Marc Najork (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Navneet Potti (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to extracting text from form-like documents. In particular, a computing system can obtain an image of a document that contains a plurality of portions of text. The computing system can extract one or more cand...