ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,741, issued on July 15, was assigned to AstrumU Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Document ingestion pipeline" was invented by Kaushik Shakkari (Redmond, Wash.) and Jing Chen (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments manage data for document ingestion pipelines. Terms in a document may be determined based on a term location within the document. A layout graph that includes term nodes may be generated based on the terms such that each of the terms corresponds to a different term node. Relationships between the term nodes may be determined based on a traversal of the layout graph such that the layout graph may be partitioned i...