ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,308, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA (Ottawa).

"Vector space model for form data extraction" was invented by Jiang Su (Ottawa) and Hongyu Guo (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for detecting attribute value pairs from corpus data using a computer comprising a processor and a computer readable medium comprising instructions executable by the processor to at least: receive the corpus data comprising at least one pair; detect a layout template of the at least one pair; measure the merit of the layout template by determining at least one of (a) relative magnitudes o...