ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,914, issued on April 8, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Method and system for understanding financial documents" was invented by Simerjot Kaur (Jersey City, N.J.), Charese Smiley (Bristol, Wis.), Joy Sain (Fairborn, Ohio), Suchetha Siddagangappa (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Akshat Gupta (New York) and Sameena Shah (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for automatically processing financial documents to generate knowledge graphs that convey information relating to entities of interest and relationships between those entities are provided. The method includes: receiving a document; extracting ...