ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,824, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Amadeus S.A.S. (Biot, France).

"Method of identifying ranking and processing information obtained from a document" was invented by Eldho Abraham (Thrissur, India) and Thi Thuy Duyen Pham (Biot, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods of automatically identifying, ranking, and processing information obtained from a document, and computerized systems and computer program products related thereto. The method involves identifying text clusters and identifying a visual layout structure of at least one part of the document, and ranking the text clusters according to visual ...