ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,015, issued on May 12.

"Method for securely extracting data from invoices using AI cloud service" was invented by Ofer Lavan (Salit, Israel) and Rotem Ben-Lulu (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for extracting information from invoices using third-party cloud AI service that includes the steps of performing OCR on an invoice image to generate an OCR Results file containing original words from the invoice and corresponding positional data, generating a JSON file by including original words that appear in a pre-prepared table of permitted words for disclosure with their corresponding positional...