ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,801, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for detecting anomalies in a portable document format (PDF) document" was invented by Atul Kumar (Bangalore, India), Sailendu Kumar Patra (Bangalore, India) and Saurabh Jha (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing a PDF document includes: modifying, by an analyzer, a background color of the document to a second color to generate a modified document; converting, by a noise removal module (NRM), the modified document into an image; making, by the NRM, a first determination that the image comprises a background no...