ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,320, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and information processing method for automatically dividing page data" was invented by Hidenori Shoji (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus that divides a plurality of scanned page data with high accuracy. The OCR unit performs optical character recognition for in a page for each of the plurality of page data. The rule order unit classifies each of the plurality of page data based on a page ordering rule according to the character...