ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,274, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. (New York).

"System and method for implementing automated harvesting of scanned contracts" was invented by Ilya Slavin (Allen, Texas), Wilson De Sousa Ferreira Jr. (New York) and Fernando Nitz (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention is directed to programmatically accessing a contract management system and executing a complex series of interfaces to navigate to the part of the site where it may use previously cached metadata to execute searches for known contracts of interest. Once the workspace for each contract is l...