ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,185, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for acquiring information, electronic device and storage medium" was invented by Yushen Chen (Beijing), Guangyao Han (Beijing), Lei Su (Beijing), Zeqing Jiang (Beijing), Zhiping Li (Beijing), Hongda Yue (Beijing), Haiyang Xu (Beijing) and Ming Luan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method for acquiring information. The method includes: acquiring a file to be processed and an information type; recognizing at least one piece of candidate information related to the information type from the file t...