ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,934, issued on May 6, was assigned to Sage Global Services Ltd. (Newcastle, Great Britain).
"Classifying documents using geometric information" was invented by Mahbub Gani (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An invoice or other document is automatically classified, for example to identify a vendor or other entity associated with the document, based on geometric characteristics of the document. Geometric information extracted from incoming images of documents is used to reconstruct a unique template, thereby providing a mechanism for automatically classifying newly received documents, for example to determine which vendor is their ...