US Patent Issued to HanziFinder on March 24 for "Systems and methods for representing and searching characters" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,401, issued on March 24, was assigned to HanziFinder LLC (Solana Beach, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for representing and searching characters" was invented by Jennifer Maureen Ball (Solana Beach, Calif.) and Chao Xu (Huai'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and supporting systems for representing and searching characters, comprising: obtaining an image of a character, labelling a structure of the character by defining a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges on the character in the image, and generating a representation of the character by extracting a set of two-dimensional coordinates to represent the plurality...