ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,542, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ELISA OYJ (Helsinki).

"Computer-implemented method for obtaining at least one number" was invented by Ville Ruutu (Helsinki) and Jussi Ruutu (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for obtaining at least one number based on a word buffer comprises: obtaining a word buffer; filling a number word buffer based on the word buffer by repeatedly obtaining a word from the word buffer, checking whether the word is a number word, and, in response to the word being a number word, adding the word to the number word buffer; in response to at leas...