ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,167, issued on July 28, was assigned to Bentley Systems Inc. (Exton, Pa.).
"Systems, methods, and media for automatically transforming textual data, representing an image, into P and ID components" was invented by Stephen Morrow (Cedar Park, Texas), Salman Abeed (Chester Springs, Pa.) and Qarib Raza Kazmi (Rawalpindi, Pakistan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for automatically transforming textual data, representing an image, into P&ID components. In an embodiment, a text file may represent an image of a plant and include a plurality of image objects representing plant components. A text class identifier corresp...