US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on Sept. 23 for "Search engines and systems with handheld document data capture devices" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. RE50,599, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Search engines and systems with handheld document data capture devices" was invented by Martin T. King (Vashon Island, Wash.), Dale L. Grover (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Clifford A. Kushler (Lynnwood, Wash.) and James Q. Stafford-Fraser (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed innovations provide systems and methods for locating data associated with rendered documents. Some embodiments support the use of a handheld document data capture device."

The patent was filed on Dec. 28, 2021, under Application No. 17/564,057.

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