US Patent Issued on June 23 for "Method and system for transforming legacy lab notebooks into chemical intelligence and drug discovery insights using optical chemical structure recognition and natural language processing to extract knowledge from handwritten lab records" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,813, issued on June 23.

"Method and system for transforming legacy lab notebooks into chemical intelligence and drug discovery insights using optical chemical structure recognition and natural language processing to extract knowledge from handwritten lab records" was invented by Shobhan Shah (San Jose, Calif.), Aarshit Mittal (Ghaziabad, India) and Parmi Shah (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a digital image or a scanned page of a historical lab notebook that contains handwritten text and a chemical structure drawing. The method includes performing opt...