ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,009, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to WHATFIX PRIVATE Ltd. (Bangalore, India).

"Processing techniques for fast and accurate identification of application screens using optical character recognition" was invented by Muthukrishnan Thukkaram (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A page identification technique is configurable to select regions of a screen for optical character recognition. The size of the regions may be selected to reduce the CPU resources needed to identify a page. Pre-processing and post-processing may be performed to improve the accuracy of the optical character recognition. A word mapping algorithm ma...