ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,364, issued on June 3, was assigned to Keeper Tax Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for automatic creation of structured data objects from unstructured data" was invented by Thomas Meyer Funk (Albany, Calif.), Thomas Corbin Madsen (San Francisco) and David Min Kang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for generating structured data objects from unstructured data is provided. The unstructured data is received and parsed by comparing substrings with entries from an entities data structure and a listing of curated patterns to identify and classify substrings. The identified substrings are then ranked a...