ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,882, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sureprep LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Document matching using artificial intelligence" was invented by David A. Wyle (Corona Del Mar, Calif.), Alexander James Sadovsky (Denver) and William W. Hosek (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system is configured to create a generalized document automation framework that captures relevant data from documents based upon replicating historical human actions associated with a document. The system may use machine vision and natural language processing to match a new document to a document that was already human extracted in an existing corpus...