US Patent Issued to Linguamatics on Nov. 25 for "Extracting information from tables embedded within documents" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. RE50,675, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Linguamatics Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Extracting information from tables embedded within documents" was invented by David Richard Milward (Cambridge, Great Britain), Himanshu Agrawal (Boston), James Robert Walton Cormack (London) and Francisco Nuno Quintiliano Mendonca Carapeto Costa (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Much valuable information in documents is presented within tables. However, the information within tables is hard to extract automatically with high accuracy due to the wide variety and low quality of typical tables found in electronic documents. Infor...