US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Guiding and validating document submissions" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,149, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Guiding and validating document submissions" was invented by Sri Harsha Varada (Vizianagaram, India), Afroz Khan I (Davanagere, India), Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India) and Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program, and computer system are provided for validating document submissions. A data entry in a data entry field associated with a document associated with a user is identified. A set of validation rules associated with the document is accessed. A determination is made as...