US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Sept. 2 for "Generation of training materials for optical character recognition" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,514, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Generation of training materials for optical character recognition" was invented by Ali Azad (Kirkland, Wash.) and David D. Pokrajac (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application is directed to the generation of training materials for optical character recognition. Generating the training materials for optical character recognition can include selecting a plurality of terms that include a string of characters. For each term, generating multiple digital term images that each includes the term with a different visual appearance. For generatio...