ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,693, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Tax document imaging and processing" was invented by Nankun Huang (San Diego), Amir Eftekhari (San Diego), Carol A. Howe (San Diego), Alan B. Tifford (San Diego) and Jeffrey P. Ludwig (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for allowing taxpayers to utilize mobile communication or communication devices such as smartphones and tablet devices to upload tax document images and process tax document images such that resulting recognized tax data is incorporated into an electronic tax return. Authentication data is...