US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for field extraction from unlabeled data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,946, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for field extraction from unlabeled data" was invented by Mingfei Gao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zeyuan Chen (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ran Xu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described a field extraction system that does not require field-level annotations for training. Specifically, the training process is bootstrapped by mining pseudo-labels from unlabeled forms using simple rules. Then, a transformer-based structure is used to model interactions between text tokens in the input form and predict a field tag for...