ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,359, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques of information extraction for selection marks" was invented by Srikant Panda (Bangalore, India), Amit Agarwal (Kolkata, India) and Kulbhushan Pachauri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include detecting one or more selection boxes and one or more text lines in a primary document. The method may include determining respective vectors associated with the selection box and adjacent text lines to the selection box in a plurality of directions. The method may include determining a set of respective vectors a...