ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,423, issued on June 10, was assigned to ZenPayroll Inc. (San Francisco).

"Data extraction from form images" was invented by Quentin Louis Raoul Balin (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system accesses an image of a completed form document. The image of the form document includes one or more features, such as form text, at particular locations within the image. The image processing system accesses a template of the form document and computes a rotation and zoom of the image of the form document relative to the template of the form document based on the locations of the features within the image of the form do...