ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,690, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to VELOCITYEHS HOLDINGS INC. (Chicago).

"Automated indexing and extraction of fields in digital records" was invented by Julia Penfield (Seattle), Aatish Suman (Austin, Texas), Veeru Talreja (Morgantown, W.va.) and Misbah Zahid Khan (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and Methods are disclosed herein for automatically indexing multiple informational fields in digital data records, the method comprising: identifying, based on rules defining target information fields, for each target field of the target information fields, at least one page in a digital data record comprising c...