ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,819, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HCL Technologies Ltd. (New Delhi).

"System and method of transforming legacy documents to XML formats" was invented by Sridhara R (Bangalore, India), Karuppiah V (Chennai, India), Kavitha Y (Chennai, India) and Angurajan K (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of key generation for transforming legacy documents to extensible markup language (XML) formats is disclosed. The method includes extracting a plurality of attributes from an intermediate structure file of a legacy document. The method further includes transforming the intermediate structure file into a custom...