ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,141, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Semantic representation of text in document" was invented by Lei Cui (Beijing), Shaohan Huang (Beijing), Li Dong (Beijing) and Furu Wei (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a solution for semantic representation of text in a document. In this solution, textual information comprising a sequence of text elements (220) and layout information (230) of the text element are determined from a document. The layout information (230) indicates a spatial arrangement of the plurality of text elements (220) presented within the docum...