ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,662, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Inferring structure information from table images" was invented by J Brandon Smock (Seattle), Pramod Kumar Sharma (Seattle), Natalia Larios Delgado (Kirkland, Wash.), Rohith Venkata Pesala (Frisco, Texas) and Robin Abraham (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes rendering a document page as an image; detecting tables, columns, and other associated table objects within the image via one or more table recognition models that model objects in the image as overlapping bounding boxes; transforming t...