ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,167, issued on April 8, was assigned to STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for automated acceptance of form documents" was invented by Thy Timothy Tran (Vancleave, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The following generally relates to using image classification techniques to determine the acceptability of form documents. In some examples, an image classification model may be trained to apply a first label to form documents that are acceptable and a second label to form documents that are unacceptable. In these examples, the image classification model may include a neural network,...