ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,047, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to L&T TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Ltd. (Chennai, India).

"Method and system of classifying text data in a document" was invented by Nirmal Ramesh Rayulu Vanapalli Venkata (Visakhapatnam, India), Irfanali Jamaluddin Shaikh (Thane, India), Mohammad Zakir Hussaian (Warangal, India) and Madhusudan Singh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for classifying text data in a document based on hierarchy classification is disclosed. A plurality of line regions comprising text data in the document are determined. Positional information and text-characteristic information for each of t...