US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on May 12 for "Mapping a tangible instance of a document" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,980, issued on May 12, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Mapping a tangible instance of a document" was invented by Brett Barros (San Mateo, Calif.) and Alexander James Faaborg (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprises: detecting, by a first computer system, first content of a tangible instance of a first document; generating, by the first computer system, a first hash using the first content, the first hash including first obfuscation content; sending, by the first computer system, the first hash for receipt by a second computer system; and receiving, by the first...