US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 29 for "Layout detection for bidirectional text documents having Hebrew text" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,634, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Layout detection for bidirectional text documents having Hebrew text" was invented by Lina Kemmel (Maale Adumim, Israel), Tomer Mahlin (Jerusalem) and Gregory Brodsky (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a layout of an electronic document containing bidirectional Hebrew text is disclosed. The system and method have a layout filter configured to determine if the electronic document is a candidate for layout detection based upon features of the electronic document, and an encoding detector configured t...