ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,519, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DST Technologies Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).
"Scalable form matching" was invented by Michail Iliadis (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining a given template of a form used by a filled in instance of that type of form from amongst a great number of form templates (a hundred or more). The given instance is evaluated by a neural network that has been trained by a single example of each template in order to reduce the total number of templates down to a manageable amount. Given a list of closest matching templates, the instance is aligned ...