ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,405, issued on April 29, was assigned to NIELSEN CONSUMER LLC (Chicago).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to extract region of interest text from receipts" was invented by Venkadachalam Ramalingam (Chennai, India), Sricharan Amarnath (Chennai, India), Raju Kumar Allam (Chennai, India), Sreenidhi N. Upadhya (Chennai, India), Kannan Shanmuganathan (Chennai, India) and Hussain Masthan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for text extraction from a receipt image. An example non-transitory computer readable medium comprises instructions ...