ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,090, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ushur Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatically extracting tabular data included within a source document" was invented by Badri Nath (Edison, N.J.), Vijayendra Mysore Shamanna (Cupertino, Calif.), Shaik Kamran Moinuddin (Bangalore, India), Henry Thomas Peter (Mountain House, Calif.) and Simha Sadasiva (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically extracting relevant information from various source document that include tabular data. The tabular data in various forms can be received as mixed with other dissimilar data. Tabular data can appea...