ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,991, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatically classifying heterogenous documents using machine learning techniques" was invented by Atul Kumar (Bangalore, India), Sahil Bansal (Delhi, India), Ruchi Mahindru (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Seema Nagar (Bangalore, India) and Daniela Rosu (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically classifying heterogeneous documents using machine learning techniques are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes extracting multiple features from one or more se...