ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,893, issued on June 3, was assigned to Open Text Corp. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for intelligent forms automation" was invented by Mark Nicholas Jackson (Kitchener, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a new intelligent forms automation solution for receiving a request or submission involving multiple types of non-native forms in a consistent manner. An engine locates a field in a non-native form, extracts a globally unique identifier (GUID) from the field and form data from data fields of the non-native form. The GUID is used by the engine to identify and retrieve a virtual copy of a native form identif...