ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,851, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data identification and extraction from unstructured documents" was invented by Arpit Narechania (Atlanta), Fan Du (Milpitas, Calif.), Atanu Sinha (Kodbisanahalli, India), Nedim Lipka (Campbell, Calif.), Alexa F. Siu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jane Elizabeth Hoffswell (Seattle), Eunyee Koh (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Vasanthi Holtcamp (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system include obtaining a document and an information element. The aspects further include identifying, from the doc...