ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,937, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Automatic form document processing" was invented by Aviral Sharma (Jaipur, India), Jatin Lamba (Kheri, India), Shreyansh Nanawati (Kalyan, India) and Dinesh Bajaj (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises identifying entities in a form document; for each of the entities, generating a vector for the entity that comprises a plurality of values describing content of the entity and a position of the entity within the form document; identifying, by the computing system, pairs of the entities that satisfy a spatial relationship requirement; fo...