US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Iteratively updating a document structure to resolve disconnected text in element blocks" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,496, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Iteratively updating a document structure to resolve disconnected text in element blocks" was invented by Daiki Tsuzuku (Kawasaki, Japan), Shunsuke Ishikawa (Shinjuku-ku, Japan), Yasumasa Kajinaga (Funabashi, Japan), Masaki Komedani (Yokohama, Japan), Keisuke Nitta (Koshigaya, Japan) and Tohru Hasegawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method iteratively update a determined structure of a digital document file to remediate disconnected text in blocks of the determined structure. In embodiments, a method includes determini...