ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,788, issued on April 15, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Content extraction based on hop distance within a graph model" was invented by Yanfei Dong (Singapore), Yuan Deng (Singapore), Jiazheng Zhang (Singapore), Francesco Gelli (Singapore), Ting Lin (Singapore), Yuzhen Zhuo (Singapore), Hewen Wang (Singapore) and Soujanya Poria (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of categorizing text entries on a document can include determining, for each of a plurality of text bounding boxes in the document, respective text, respective coordinates, and respective input embeddings. The method may further include definin...