ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,863, issued on May 20, was assigned to L&T TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Ltd. (Chennai, India).

"Method and system of extracting data based on spatial features" was invented by Kalakonda Krishna Vamshi (Hyderabad, India), Rajesh Raj (Bengaluru, India), Madhusudan Singh (Bangalore, India) and Niveditha Sureshbabu (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of extracting data from a set of documents is disclosed. A processor determines a plurality of spatial features for each of the set of documents based on a set of keywords and a set of entities extracted from the documents. A variance is determined between at least on...