ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,549, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Aurea Software Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Iterative fact-extraction" was invented by Martin Betz (Palo Alto, Calif.), Harshal Pradhan (Thane, India), Ankush Nagpal (Gurgaon, India) and Xiang Yu (Clarksville, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for identifying a first pattern formed by a first set of document elements. The method associates a tag that identifies the first pattern with the document. The method then identifies a second pattern formed by a second set of document elements and the tag. The method associates a second tag with the document. The second tag ide...