ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,728, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Prediction of table column items in unstructured documents using a hybrid model" was invented by Romulo Teixeira de Abreu Pinho (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Paulo Abelha Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Vinicius Michel Gottin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Pablo Nascimento da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes collecting annotated unstructured documents that each include a table with words whose respective column indices are known, using the documents to train a model to detect a table header in a given do...