ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,911, issued on April 14, was assigned to Harry Tu (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for handwriting recognition using optical character recognition" was invented by Harry Tu (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Wei Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for automatically identifying handwritten tips. An example method includes obtaining an image of a receipt, where the image includes a reference region in a pre-set format, a plurality of category identifiers, and at least one set of handwritten characters. The reference region and the plurality o...