ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,821, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Express Scripts Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).

"Machine-learning-automated recognition and labelling of columnar data" was invented by Jonathan J. Lisic (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, system and computer-readable medium including receiving input data that is organized into a set of rows and a set of columns, maintaining a machine learning header model that is trained on tabular data with header rows, supplying the input data to generate header row identification data that identifies a set of header rows th...