US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 3 for "Information extraction from documents containing handwritten text" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,990, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Information extraction from documents containing handwritten text" was invented by Saurabh Goyal (Jersey City, N.J.), Catherine Finegan-Dollak (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.) and Ashish Verma (Nanuet, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for information extraction is provided. The present invention may include receiving, by a handwriting detection model of an integrated system, a mixed-text document including a combination of typed text and handwritten text, where the received mixed-text document ...