ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,227, issued on July 21, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic generation of presentations from documents" was invented by Himanshu Maheshwari (Bengaluru, India), Aparna Garimella (Bengaluru, India) and Niyati Himanshu Chhaya (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include extracting structured text from a source document. The structured text comprises a plurality of source sections. Some embodiments generate a semantic outline based on the structured text. In some examples, the semantic outline comprises a plurality of output headings. Some embodiments generate text c...