ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,147, issued on July 29, was assigned to Infosys Ltd. (Bangalore, India).

"Template agnostic document reader" was invented by Kalyan Boosetty (Bangalore, India) and Kosigamaani Thirumoorthy (Avinashi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and/or system for template agnostic document reader for automated extraction of data from documents is disclosed, wherein the kernel values are extracted from document image using which horizontal lines and vertical lines are determined in the document image. The horizontal lines are determined by extracting pixel values representing character width in the document image. The area of intersec...