US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Entity type based location detection for document content analysis" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,082, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Entity type based location detection for document content analysis" was invented by Oron Anschel (Haifa, Israel), Shahar Tsiper (Haifa, Israel), Shai Mazor (Binyamina, Israel), Jonathan Wu (Seattle) and Meng Wang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning model is trained to detect candidate locations of instances of entity types within a document. The model comprises region-based convolutional neural networks with classifier layers corresponding to the entity types. A trained version of the model is stored. In response to a programmatic requ...