ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,714, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to L&T TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Ltd. (Chennai, India).

"Method and system of classifying documents based on layout determination" was invented by Niveditha Sureshbabu (Bengaluru, India), Rajesh Raj (Bengaluru, India) and Madhusudan Singh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of classifying documents is disclosed. The method includes determining line-text data for each of a plurality of lines of the document image using a text extraction technique. A set of unique keywords in the document image is determined based on a predefined list of keywords in the line-text data for ea...