US Patent Issued to MyScript on June 24 for "Recognizing handwritten text by combining neural networks" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,609, issued on June 24, was assigned to MyScript (Nantes, France).

"Recognizing handwritten text by combining neural networks" was invented by Gael Manson (Nantes, France), Guillermo Aradilla (Nantes, France), Cyril Cerovic (Nantes, France) and Pierre-Michel Lallican (Nantes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recognizing handwritten text is disclosed. The method comprises receiving data comprising a sequence of ink points; applying the received data to a neural network-based sequence classifier trained with a Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) output layer using forced alignment to generate an output; genera...