US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 15 for "Method and system of generating an editable document from a non-editable document" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,202, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system of generating an editable document from a non-editable document" was invented by Gaurav Tendolkar (San Jose, Calif.), Akshay Mallipeddi (Cupertino, Calif.), Gongjie Qi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sumithra Bhakthavatsalam (Kirkland, Wash.) and Tapan Bohra (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method and for generating an editable document from a non-editable document includes automatically identifying a layout for a plurality of objects in the non-editable document, where the layout includes bounding boxes ...